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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... usual ; and , besides the fulmar peterels , boatswains , and kitti- wakes , we saw , for the first time , some rotges , dovekies , or black guillemots , and terns , the latter known best to seamen by the name of the Green- land swallow ...
... usual ; and , besides the fulmar peterels , boatswains , and kitti- wakes , we saw , for the first time , some rotges , dovekies , or black guillemots , and terns , the latter known best to seamen by the name of the Green- land swallow ...
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... usual for these animals to descend head foremost , displaying the broad fork of their enormous tail above the surface of the water ; but , on this occasion , the ice was so close as not to admit of this mode of descent , and the fish ...
... usual for these animals to descend head foremost , displaying the broad fork of their enormous tail above the surface of the water ; but , on this occasion , the ice was so close as not to admit of this mode of descent , and the fish ...
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... ° 43 ' 04 " , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy bottom . The wind shortly after died away , as usual , and , after ma « king a number tacks , in order to gain all OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 21.
... ° 43 ' 04 " , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy bottom . The wind shortly after died away , as usual , and , after ma « king a number tacks , in order to gain all OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 21.
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... usual oceanic colour , and by a long swell which was rolling in from the southward and eastward . At six P.M. , however , land was report . ed to be seen ahead . The vexation and anxiety produced on every countenance by such a report ...
... usual oceanic colour , and by a long swell which was rolling in from the southward and eastward . At six P.M. , however , land was report . ed to be seen ahead . The vexation and anxiety produced on every countenance by such a report ...
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... usual observations for determining the variation of the needle on board the ships . This irregularity became more and more obvious as we now ad . vanced to the southward , which rendered it not improbable that we were making a very near ...
... usual observations for determining the variation of the needle on board the ships . This irregularity became more and more obvious as we now ad . vanced to the southward , which rendered it not improbable that we were making a very near ...
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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