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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... Sail . - Abstract of Observations made in Winter Harbour . Page 128 CHAPTER X. • Leave Winter Harbour - Flattering Appearance of the Sea to the Westward . - Stopped by the Ice near Cape Hay . - Farther Progress to the Longitude of 113 ...
... Sail . - Abstract of Observations made in Winter Harbour . Page 128 CHAPTER X. • Leave Winter Harbour - Flattering Appearance of the Sea to the Westward . - Stopped by the Ice near Cape Hay . - Farther Progress to the Longitude of 113 ...
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... sail , and forcing the ship through by separating the masses . • CALFA mass of ice lying under a floe near its margin , and , when disengaged from that position , rising with violence to the surface of the water . See TONGUE . CLEAR ...
... sail , and forcing the ship through by separating the masses . • CALFA mass of ice lying under a floe near its margin , and , when disengaged from that position , rising with violence to the surface of the water . See TONGUE . CLEAR ...
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... SAILING - ICE . - Ice of which the masses are so much separated as to allow a ship to sail among them . SALLYING a Ship . - The operation of causing her to roll , by the men running in a body from side to side , so as to relieve her ...
... SAILING - ICE . - Ice of which the masses are so much separated as to allow a ship to sail among them . SALLYING a Ship . - The operation of causing her to roll , by the men running in a body from side to side , so as to relieve her ...
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... sail through the narrowest part . The facility with which this operation , technically called " boring , " is performed , depends chiefly on having a fresh and free wind , with which we were not favoured on this occasion ; so that ...
... sail through the narrowest part . The facility with which this operation , technically called " boring , " is performed , depends chiefly on having a fresh and free wind , with which we were not favoured on this occasion ; so that ...
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... sail upon the latter ship , we succeeded in towing her out , head to wind , till she was enabled to proceed in clear ... sailing north- ward into Baffin's Bay , from the lat . of 6330. We found ourselves in the midst of a great number of ...
... sail upon the latter ship , we succeeded in towing her out , head to wind , till she was enabled to proceed in clear ... sailing north- ward into Baffin's Bay , from the lat . of 6330. We found ourselves in the midst of a great number of ...
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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