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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... hand , naturally kept the Hecla right ahead ; and thus , however ridiculous it may appear , it is nev ertheless true , that we steered one ship entirely by the other for a distance of ten miles out of sixteen and a half , which we ...
... hand , naturally kept the Hecla right ahead ; and thus , however ridiculous it may appear , it is nev ertheless true , that we steered one ship entirely by the other for a distance of ten miles out of sixteen and a half , which we ...
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... hands were immediately sent to bring them in , and they arrived on board at ten P.M. , af- ter an absence of ninety - one hours , and having been exposed during three nights to the inclemen- cy of the first wintry weather we had ...
... hands were immediately sent to bring them in , and they arrived on board at ten P.M. , af- ter an absence of ninety - one hours , and having been exposed during three nights to the inclemen- cy of the first wintry weather we had ...
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... hands were again set to work on the morning of the 25th , when it was proposed to sink the pieces of ice , as they were cut , under the floe , instead of floating them out , the latter mode having now be . come impracticable on account ...
... hands were again set to work on the morning of the 25th , when it was proposed to sink the pieces of ice , as they were cut , under the floe , instead of floating them out , the latter mode having now be . come impracticable on account ...
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... hands severely frostbit- ten , having imprudently gone away without mit- tens , and with a musket in his hand . A party of our people most providentially found him , although the night was very dark , just as he had fallen down a steep ...
... hands severely frostbit- ten , having imprudently gone away without mit- tens , and with a musket in his hand . A party of our people most providentially found him , although the night was very dark , just as he had fallen down a steep ...
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... hand ; the feeling produced by it exactly resembling that occasioned by the opposite extreme of intense heat , and taking off the skin from the part affected . We found it necessary , therefore , to use great caution in handling our ...
... hand ; the feeling produced by it exactly resembling that occasioned by the opposite extreme of intense heat , and taking off the skin from the part affected . We found it necessary , therefore , to use great caution in handling our ...
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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