Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And a Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the the North Pole, Volumen1Harper, 1840 |
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... Animals . - Arrival of a Tribe of Esquimaux . - First Meeting and subsequent Intercourse with them Esquimaux in Want of Provisions . - Supplied with Bread - dust . Some Account of a Sealing Excursion with them . - Fresh Disruption of ...
... Animals . - Arrival of a Tribe of Esquimaux . - First Meeting and subsequent Intercourse with them Esquimaux in Want of Provisions . - Supplied with Bread - dust . Some Account of a Sealing Excursion with them . - Fresh Disruption of ...
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... animal of its skin and blubber . FLOC . - The same as a field , except that its extent can be dis- tinguished from a ship's masthead . A " bay - flue " is a flue of ice newly formed . FLOR - PIECE . - An expression generally applied to ...
... animal of its skin and blubber . FLOC . - The same as a field , except that its extent can be dis- tinguished from a ship's masthead . A " bay - flue " is a flue of ice newly formed . FLOR - PIECE . - An expression generally applied to ...
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... animals to descend head foremost , displaying the broad fork of their enormous tail above the surface of the water ... animal had probably been attracted by the smell of some red herrings which the men were frying at the time . It is a ...
... animals to descend head foremost , displaying the broad fork of their enormous tail above the surface of the water ... animal had probably been attracted by the smell of some red herrings which the men were frying at the time . It is a ...
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... animals usually lie huddled together like pigs , one over the other , and are so stupidly tame as to allow a boat to ... animal killed to - day struggled violently for ten minutes after it was struck , and towed the boat twenty or thirty ...
... animals usually lie huddled together like pigs , one over the other , and are so stupidly tame as to allow a boat to ... animal killed to - day struggled violently for ten minutes after it was struck , and towed the boat twenty or thirty ...
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... animals sink immediately on being mortally wounded , some dexterity is requisite to secure them , by first throw . ing a rope over the neck , at which many of the Greenland seamen are remarkably expert . It is customary for the boats of ...
... animals sink immediately on being mortally wounded , some dexterity is requisite to secure them , by first throw . ing a rope over the neck , at which many of the Greenland seamen are remarkably expert . It is customary for the boats of ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared beach began boat breeze cabin canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast continued course deck direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Gore Bay Greenland Griper half past heavy Hecla hill hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet island Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying masses of ice Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward Northwest Passage o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party passage pieces Possession Bay present quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay round sail scarcely seal seen ships shore side situation six P.M. sledge snow soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion to-day usual voyage walked weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island