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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... 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.
... 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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... breeze from the southward , and I was anxious to avoid , if possible , the necessi ty of going to the eastward , I pushed the Hecla into the ice , in the hope of being able to make our way through it . We had scarcely done so , how ...
... breeze from the southward , and I was anxious to avoid , if possible , the necessi ty of going to the eastward , I pushed the Hecla into the ice , in the hope of being able to make our way through it . We had scarcely done so , how ...
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... breeze from the south- eastward , we ran into the ice , which for the first two miles consisted of detached pieces , but after . ward of floes of considerable extent , and six or seven feet in thickness . The wind died away towards ...
... breeze from the south- eastward , we ran into the ice , which for the first two miles consisted of detached pieces , but after . ward of floes of considerable extent , and six or seven feet in thickness . The wind died away towards ...
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... breeze was drifting fast to the southeastward . The wind increased to a fresh breeze on the morning of the 31st , which prevented our making much way to the westward . We stood in towards Cape Byam Martin , and sounded in eighty fathoms ...
... breeze was drifting fast to the southeastward . The wind increased to a fresh breeze on the morning of the 31st , which prevented our making much way to the westward . We stood in towards Cape Byam Martin , and sounded in eighty fathoms ...
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... breeze which was bringing up the Griper , and for which we had long been looking with much impatience , a crowd of sail was set to carry us with all rapidity to the westward . It is more easy to imagine than to describe the almost ...
... breeze which was bringing up the Griper , and for which we had long been looking with much impatience , a crowd of sail was set to carry us with all rapidity to the westward . It is more easy to imagine than to describe the almost ...
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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