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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... Eastward , the Griper forced on the Beach by the Ice - Search for , and Discovery of , a Winter Harbour on Melville Island . - Operations for securing the Ships in their Winter Quarters Page 53 · CHAPTER V. Precautions for securing the ...
... Eastward , the Griper forced on the Beach by the Ice - Search for , and Discovery of , a Winter Harbour on Melville Island . - Operations for securing the Ships in their Winter Quarters Page 53 · CHAPTER V. Precautions for securing the ...
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... Eastward , to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward - Re - enter Barrow's Strait , and Survey its South Coast . - Pass through Sir James Lancaster's Sound on our Return to England 141 CHAPTER XI . Progress down the Western ...
... Eastward , to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward - Re - enter Barrow's Strait , and Survey its South Coast . - Pass through Sir James Lancaster's Sound on our Return to England 141 CHAPTER XI . Progress down the Western ...
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... Eastward through the Frozen Strait . - Discovery of Hurd Channel . - Examined in a 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 ...
... Eastward through the Frozen Strait . - Discovery of Hurd Channel . - Examined in a 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 ...
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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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... eastward , caused the ice , through which we had lately been towing , to close together so rapidly , that we had scarcely time to hoist up the boats before the ships were immova- bly " beset . " The clear sea which we had left was about ...
... eastward , caused the ice , through which we had lately been towing , to close together so rapidly , that we had scarcely time to hoist up the boats before the ships were immova- bly " beset . " The clear sea which we had left was about ...
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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