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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... secure . her from the danger of external pressure ; and the latter , a square space cut out with saws for a similar purpose . FIELD - A sheet of ice generally of great thickness , and of too great extent to be seen over from a ship's ...
... secure . her from the danger of external pressure ; and the latter , a square space cut out with saws for a similar purpose . FIELD - A sheet of ice generally of great thickness , and of too great extent to be seen over from a ship's ...
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... secure them , by first throw . ing a rope over the neck , at which many of the Greenland seamen are remarkably expert . It is customary for the boats of the whalers to have two or three lines coiled in them , which not only gives them ...
... secure them , by first throw . ing a rope over the neck , at which many of the Greenland seamen are remarkably expert . It is customary for the boats of the whalers to have two or three lines coiled in them , which not only gives them ...
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... secure shelter with the wind from E.N.E. round by north to S. W. , and we found it more free from ice than any other part of the southern coast of the island . The Bay of the Hecla and Griper was the first spot where we had dropped ...
... secure shelter with the wind from E.N.E. round by north to S. W. , and we found it more free from ice than any other part of the southern coast of the island . The Bay of the Hecla and Griper was the first spot where we had dropped ...
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... secure the ships every night from ten till two o'clock , the weather being too dark during that in- terval to allow of our keeping under way in such a navigation as this , deprived as we were of the use of compasses . On the morning of ...
... secure the ships every night from ten till two o'clock , the weather being too dark during that in- terval to allow of our keeping under way in such a navigation as this , deprived as we were of the use of compasses . On the morning of ...
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... secure situation for the winter . We sounded the channel into the har . bour for about three quarters of a mile , by making holes in the ice and dropping the lead through , and found the depth from five to six fathoms . The ships ...
... secure situation for the winter . We sounded the channel into the har . bour for about three quarters of a mile , by making holes in the ice and dropping the lead through , and found the depth from five to six fathoms . The ships ...
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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