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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... Sealing Excursion with them . - Fresh Disruption of the Ice in the Bay . - Closing of the Winter Theatre .-- Meteorological Phenomena till the end of February , 1822 CHAPTER VIII . • 246 A Journey performed acros Winter Island ...
... Sealing Excursion with them . - Fresh Disruption of the Ice in the Bay . - Closing of the Winter Theatre .-- Meteorological Phenomena till the end of February , 1822 CHAPTER VIII . • 246 A Journey performed acros Winter Island ...
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... seal , and which discovered the thickness of the ice to be there between two and three feet . There was a fresh breeze from the northeast- ward , with fine clear weather , on the 22d , which made the Hecla swing round into twenty feet ...
... seal , and which discovered the thickness of the ice to be there between two and three feet . There was a fresh breeze from the northeast- ward , with fine clear weather , on the 22d , which made the Hecla swing round into twenty feet ...
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... seal . The wind continued fresh from the east and E.N.E. in the morning , and the loose ice came close in upon us , but the main body remained stationary at the dis . tance of nearly half a mile . In the afternoon a man from each mess ...
... seal . The wind continued fresh from the east and E.N.E. in the morning , and the loose ice came close in upon us , but the main body remained stationary at the dis . tance of nearly half a mile . In the afternoon a man from each mess ...
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... were found to have acquired a much more disagreeable flavour than when first killed , though they had not undergone putrefac- tion in the slightest degree . an English market . A small seal , killed by 150 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... were found to have acquired a much more disagreeable flavour than when first killed , though they had not undergone putrefac- tion in the slightest degree . an English market . A small seal , killed by 150 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... seal , killed by the Griper's people , was also eaten by them ; and it was generally allowed to be very tender and pala . table , though not very sightly in its appearance , being of a disagreeable red colour . At ten P.M. the whole ...
... seal , killed by the Griper's people , was also eaten by them ; and it was generally allowed to be very tender and pala . table , though not very sightly in its appearance , being of a disagreeable red colour . At ten P.M. the whole ...
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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