The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni: Forming an Interesting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of Various NationsW. Wright, 1838 - 992 páginas |
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accompanied Akaitcho animals appeared arrived beach Belzoni boat Cacheff canoes Cape Captain Franklin Captain Lyon Captain Parry Captain Ross circumstances coast Commander Ross crew deer direction distance dogs endeavour Esquimaux expedition feet fish floe Fort Chipewyan Fort Providence Fury Greenlanders harbour Hecla Hudson's Bay Company hundred hunters Igloolik inches Indians inlet island journey killed Kotzebue Sound labour Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieutenant miles morning natives night North-west North-west Company northward observed occasion officers party passage passed pemmican persons piece present proceed proceeded procure provisions reached rein-deer remained Repulse Bay river rocks round sail seals season seen sent ship shore side skin Slave Lake sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones Strait tent thick tion took travelling vessel voyage weather westward whale whole wind winter Winter Island
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Página 244 - All this tends to confirm the assertion of the great apostle of the gentiles : " Because that which may be known of God is manifested in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from
Página 602 - strikingly elucidated by the following remarkable passage: ' After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho, king of Egypt, came up to fight against Charchemish, by Euphrates ; and Josiah went out against him. But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, what have I to do with thee,
Página 603 - three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And
Página 604 - indeed. The house is ready, without rent or taxes No rain can pass through the roof; and there is no door, for there is no want of one, as there is nothing to lose. They make a kind of box of clay and straw, which, after two or three
Página 376 - sight of the shores for days, will to a certainty make the land at once, at the very place they desired. Some of the French missionaries have supposed that the Indians are guided by instinct, and have pretended that Indian children can find their way through a forest as easily as a person
Página 372 - with soft moss. The board is left somewhat longer and broader than the child, and bent, pieces of wood, like pieces of hoops, are placed over its face to protect it, so that if the machine were suffered to fall the child would not probably be injured. The women,
Página 597 - a sarcophagus of the finest oriental alabaster, nine feet five inches long, and three feet seven inches wide. Its thickness is only two inches; and it is transparent when a light is placed inside of it. It is minutely sculptured within and without with several hundred figures, which do not exceed two inches in height, and represent, as
Página 329 - Tattooing is almost universal with the Crees. The women are in general content with having one or two lines drawn from the corners of the mouth towards the angles of the lower jaw ; but some of the men have their bodies covered with a great variety of lines and figures. It seems to be considered by
Página 655 - the Alexander, to follow your orders for his further proceedings; you are hereby required and directed to proceed to sea, with all convenient despatch, in the Isabella, and, taking under your orders the Alexander above mentioned, make the best of your way into Davis' Strait, through which you will endeavour to pass to
Página 637 - one of the greatest sufferings that a human being can sustain : the eyes grow inflamed, the tongue and lips swell; a hollow sound is heard in the ears, which brings on deafness, and the brains appear to grow thick and inflamed :—all these feelings arise from the want of a