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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... Quantity of Ice col- lected on the Hecla's lower Deck . - Meterological Phenome- na . Conclusion of Theatrical Entertainments . - Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open Air .-- Remarkable Halos and ...
... Quantity of Ice col- lected on the Hecla's lower Deck . - Meterological Phenome- na . Conclusion of Theatrical Entertainments . - Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open Air .-- Remarkable Halos and ...
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... quantities of ice , is usually of a yellowish cast . BORE . - The operation of " boring " through loose ice consists in entering under a press of sail , and forcing the ship through by separating the masses . • CALFA mass of ice lying ...
... quantities of ice , is usually of a yellowish cast . BORE . - The operation of " boring " through loose ice consists in entering under a press of sail , and forcing the ship through by separating the masses . • CALFA mass of ice lying ...
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... quantity of " floe - ice " intermixed with them , be- yond which , to the westward , nothing but ice could be seen . At noon we had soundings , with one hundred and twenty fathoms of line , on a bottom of fine sand , which makes it ...
... quantity of " floe - ice " intermixed with them , be- yond which , to the westward , nothing but ice could be seen . At noon we had soundings , with one hundred and twenty fathoms of line , on a bottom of fine sand , which makes it ...
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... quantity of loose ice , which lay straggling among the bergs and as there was a light breeze from the southward , and I was anxious to avoid , if possible , the necessi ty of going to the eastward , I pushed the Hecla into the ice , in ...
... quantity of loose ice , which lay straggling among the bergs and as there was a light breeze from the southward , and I was anxious to avoid , if possible , the necessi ty of going to the eastward , I pushed the Hecla into the ice , in ...
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... on examina . tion , that the iron barb had penetrated both auri- cles of the heart . A quantity of the blubber was put into casks , as a winter's supply of lamp - oil . A large bear being seen on a piece of ice 20 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... on examina . tion , that the iron barb had penetrated both auri- cles of the heart . A quantity of the blubber was put into casks , as a winter's supply of lamp - oil . A large bear being seen on a piece of ice 20 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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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