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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... 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 . ever , before it fell calm ; when the ship became perfectly unmanageable , and was for some ...
... 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 . ever , before it fell calm ; when the ship became perfectly unmanageable , and was for some ...
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... going round to the eastward . On this , as on many other occasions , the advantage possessed by a ship of considerable weight in the water , in separating the heavy masses of ice , was very apparent . In some of the streams through ...
... going round to the eastward . On this , as on many other occasions , the advantage possessed by a ship of considerable weight in the water , in separating the heavy masses of ice , was very apparent . In some of the streams through ...
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... going to the masthead , shortly after the boats had been despatched , I found that the bight of ice in which the ships were lying was not one floe , but formed by the close junction of two , so that our situation was by no means so ...
... going to the masthead , shortly after the boats had been despatched , I found that the bight of ice in which the ships were lying was not one floe , but formed by the close junction of two , so that our situation was by no means so ...
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... going to the westward we passed a shoal and open bay , immediately adjacent to the harbour which we were now about to examine , and soon after came to a reef of rocks , in some parts nearly dry , extending about three quarters of a mile ...
... going to the westward we passed a shoal and open bay , immediately adjacent to the harbour which we were now about to examine , and soon after came to a reef of rocks , in some parts nearly dry , extending about three quarters of a mile ...
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... going , immediately became a mark on which our eyes were unconsciously fixed , and to- wards which we mechanically advanced . We had frequent occasion , in our walks on shore , to remark the deception which takes place in esti . mating ...
... going , immediately became a mark on which our eyes were unconsciously fixed , and to- wards which we mechanically advanced . We had frequent occasion , in our walks on shore , to remark the deception which takes place in esti . mating ...
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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