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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... carried over Land - Return to the Ships . - Progress out of the Inlet prevented by the Ice . - The Fury grounds upon a Rock . -Anchor in Safety Cove - Heavy Easterly gales . - Proceed out of the Inlet . - Arrival in a Bay on the south ...
... carried over Land - Return to the Ships . - Progress out of the Inlet prevented by the Ice . - The Fury grounds upon a Rock . -Anchor in Safety Cove - Heavy Easterly gales . - Proceed out of the Inlet . - Arrival in a Bay on the south ...
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... carried all sail ahead to make the land . We saw it at half past five P.M. , being the high land about Possession Bay , and at the same time several streams of loose but heavy ice came in sight , which a fresh breeze was drifting fast ...
... carried all sail ahead to make the land . We saw it at half past five P.M. , being the high land about Possession Bay , and at the same time several streams of loose but heavy ice came in sight , which a fresh breeze was drifting fast ...
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... carried a press of sail , and in the course of the evening saw the northern shore of the sound looming through the clouds which hung over it . The weather being clear in the evening of the 2d 30 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... carried a press of sail , and in the course of the evening saw the northern shore of the sound looming through the clouds which hung over it . The weather being clear in the evening of the 2d 30 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... carry us with all rapidity to the westward . It is more easy to imagine than to describe the almost breathless anxiety which was now visible in every countenance , while , as the breeze continued to a fresh gale , we ran quickly up the ...
... carry us with all rapidity to the westward . It is more easy to imagine than to describe the almost breathless anxiety which was now visible in every countenance , while , as the breeze continued to a fresh gale , we ran quickly up the ...
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... and one of the Hecla's seamen brought to the boat a narwhal's horn , which he found on a hill more than a mile from the sea , and which must VOL . I. - E have been carried thither by Esquimaux or by bears : OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 49.
... and one of the Hecla's seamen brought to the boat a narwhal's horn , which he found on a hill more than a mile from the sea , and which must VOL . I. - E have been carried thither by Esquimaux or by bears : OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 49.
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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