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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... Boat . - Loss of the Fury's Anchor - Providential Escape of the Fury from Shipwreck.- Anchor in Duckett Cove - Farther Examination of the Coast by Boats and Walking - parties . - Ships proceed through Hurd Channel . Are drifted by the ...
... Boat . - Loss of the Fury's Anchor - Providential Escape of the Fury from Shipwreck.- Anchor in Duckett Cove - Farther Examination of the Coast by Boats and Walking - parties . - Ships proceed through Hurd Channel . Are drifted by the ...
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... Boats for the purpose of Connecting the shores of Lyon Inlet with that of Gore Bay .-- Continuity of the Land determined . - Fresh Detention by the Ice . - Boats carried over Land - Return to the Ships . - Progress out of the Inlet ...
... Boats for the purpose of Connecting the shores of Lyon Inlet with that of Gore Bay .-- Continuity of the Land determined . - Fresh Detention by the Ice . - Boats carried over Land - Return to the Ships . - Progress out of the Inlet ...
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... boat or ship may pass . LEAD - A channel through the ice . A ship is said to " take the right lead " when she follows a channel conducting her into a more navigable sea , and vice verså . MAKING - OFF Blubber . - The operation of ...
... boat or ship may pass . LEAD - A channel through the ice . A ship is said to " take the right lead " when she follows a channel conducting her into a more navigable sea , and vice verså . MAKING - OFF Blubber . - The operation of ...
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... the 25th , all the boats were kept ahead , to tow the ships through the ice to the westward . It re- mained tolerably open till four P.M. , when a breeze , freshening up from the eastward , caused the ice , 16 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... the 25th , all the boats were kept ahead , to tow the ships through the ice to the westward . It re- mained tolerably open till four P.M. , when a breeze , freshening up from the eastward , caused the ice , 16 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... boats before the ships were immova- bly " beset . " The clear sea which we had left was about four miles to the eastward of us , while to the westward nothing but one extensive field of ice could be seen . It is impossible to conceive a ...
... boats before the ships were immova- bly " beset . " The clear sea which we had left was about four miles to the eastward of us , while to the westward nothing but one extensive field of ice could be seen . It is impossible to conceive a ...
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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