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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... five voyages made by that distinguished navigator , under the sanction of the British government , in search of a passage from the eastern to the western side of the American Continent , through the Arctic Ocean . Although abbreviated ...
... five voyages made by that distinguished navigator , under the sanction of the British government , in search of a passage from the eastern to the western side of the American Continent , through the Arctic Ocean . Although abbreviated ...
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... five fathoms ; the temperature of the sea at that depth 30 ° ; that of the surface being the same , and of the air 34 ° . On the 30th the ice began to slacken a little more about the ships ; and , after two hours ' heaving with a hawser ...
... five fathoms ; the temperature of the sea at that depth 30 ° ; that of the surface being the same , and of the air 34 ° . On the 30th the ice began to slacken a little more about the ships ; and , after two hours ' heaving with a hawser ...
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... five hours , and may serve as an example of the detention to which ships are liable in this kind of navigation . Early on the morning of the 21st the fog clear- ed away , and discovered to us the land called by Davis , Hope Sanderson ...
... five hours , and may serve as an example of the detention to which ships are liable in this kind of navigation . Early on the morning of the 21st the fog clear- ed away , and discovered to us the land called by Davis , Hope Sanderson ...
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... five P.M. the swell increased considerably , and , as the wind freshened up from the northeast , the ice gradually disappeared ; so that by six o'clock we were sailing in an open sea , perfectly free from obstruction of any kind . We ...
... five P.M. the swell increased considerably , and , as the wind freshened up from the northeast , the ice gradually disappeared ; so that by six o'clock we were sailing in an open sea , perfectly free from obstruction of any kind . We ...
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... five years . That none of the Esquimaux tribe had visited this part of the coast since we landed there in 1818 , was evident from the flagstaff then erected still remaining un- touched . Mr. Fisher found every part of the val- ley quite ...
... five years . That none of the Esquimaux tribe had visited this part of the coast since we landed there in 1818 , was evident from the flagstaff then erected still remaining un- touched . Mr. Fisher found every part of the val- ley quite ...
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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