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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... walked inland , following the banks of the stream . Among the fragments we picked up one piece of limestone , on which was the impression of a fossil - shell . We saw here a great number of young black guillemots , and a flock of ducks ...
... walked inland , following the banks of the stream . Among the fragments we picked up one piece of limestone , on which was the impression of a fossil - shell . We saw here a great number of young black guillemots , and a flock of ducks ...
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... one that had been erected some days before at a considerable distance to the eastward of our pres ent situation and with that impression , walked away in a contrary direction , accompanied by two of 58 * VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... one that had been erected some days before at a considerable distance to the eastward of our pres ent situation and with that impression , walked away in a contrary direction , accompanied by two of 58 * VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... walked some distance and were enabled to as- certain what it was , one of them endeavoured to overtake Mr. Fife , but was too much fatigued , and returned to his comrades . They halted during a part of the night , made a sort of hut of ...
... walked some distance and were enabled to as- certain what it was , one of them endeavoured to overtake Mr. Fife , but was too much fatigued , and returned to his comrades . They halted during a part of the night , made a sort of hut of ...
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... walked on shore for an hour without inconvenience , the sensation of cold depending much more on the degree of wind at the time than on the absolute temperature of the atmosphere as indicated by the thermometer . In several of the ...
... walked on shore for an hour without inconvenience , the sensation of cold depending much more on the degree of wind at the time than on the absolute temperature of the atmosphere as indicated by the thermometer . In several of the ...
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... walked along the beach , at even a greater distance than this . Another circumstance also oc- curred to - day , which may perhaps be considered as worthy of notice . Lieutenant Beechey , and Messrs . Beverly and Fisher , in the course ...
... walked along the beach , at even a greater distance than this . Another circumstance also oc- curred to - day , which may perhaps be considered as worthy of notice . Lieutenant Beechey , and Messrs . Beverly and Fisher , in the course ...
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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