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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... once sublime and terrific . We could find no bottom near these icebergs with one hundred and ten fathoms of line . At four A.M. on the 4th we came to a quantity of loose ice , which lay straggling among the bergs and as there was a ...
... once sublime and terrific . We could find no bottom near these icebergs with one hundred and ten fathoms of line . At four A.M. on the 4th we came to a quantity of loose ice , which lay straggling among the bergs and as there was a ...
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... once seen a bear on the point of taking possession of them . Great caution should therefore be used under such circumstances in attacking these fero . cious creatures . We have always found a board . ing - pike the most useful weapon ...
... once seen a bear on the point of taking possession of them . Great caution should therefore be used under such circumstances in attacking these fero . cious creatures . We have always found a board . ing - pike the most useful weapon ...
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... once to remark that , from this time till the end of the voyage , snow - water was exclu- sively made use of on board the ships for every purpose . During the summer months , it is found in abundance in the ' pools upon the floes and ...
... once to remark that , from this time till the end of the voyage , snow - water was exclu- sively made use of on board the ships for every purpose . During the summer months , it is found in abundance in the ' pools upon the floes and ...
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... once more to enter the ice in this place , and to try the experiment of forcing our way through it , in order to get into the open sea . Being therefore favoured with clear weather , and a moderate breeze from the south- eastward , we ...
... once more to enter the ice in this place , and to try the experiment of forcing our way through it , in order to get into the open sea . Being therefore favoured with clear weather , and a moderate breeze from the south- eastward , we ...
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... once more close in every direction except that in which we had been sail- ing , obliging us to make the ships fast to a floe . At half past three P.M. the weather cleared up , and a few narrow lanes of water being seen to the westward ...
... once more close in every direction except that in which we had been sail- ing , obliging us to make the ships fast to a floe . At half past three P.M. the weather cleared up , and a few narrow lanes of water being seen to the westward ...
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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