Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen2Harper, 1858 |
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... circumstances under which the journeys have been made , that these apparent inconsistencies can be reconciled , and an approximation to the truth obtained . Many of our officers and men cordially greeted these poor people as old ...
... circumstances under which the journeys have been made , that these apparent inconsistencies can be reconciled , and an approximation to the truth obtained . Many of our officers and men cordially greeted these poor people as old ...
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... circumstances , would not have been considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three days ' navigation had taught us to disregard , when compared with what we had reason almost every moment to expect . A little before noon a ...
... circumstances , would not have been considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three days ' navigation had taught us to disregard , when compared with what we had reason almost every moment to expect . A little before noon a ...
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... circumstance involved the necessity of our awaiting that operation , which nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in this neighbourhood , before we could hope to sail round the northeastern point of the American con- tinent . At ...
... circumstance involved the necessity of our awaiting that operation , which nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in this neighbourhood , before we could hope to sail round the northeastern point of the American con- tinent . At ...
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... circumstance rather seemed to intimate , as we afterward found to be the case , that the shores of the strait and its immediate neighbourhood are not a frequent resort of the natives during the summer months . We got under way on the ...
... circumstance rather seemed to intimate , as we afterward found to be the case , that the shores of the strait and its immediate neighbourhood are not a frequent resort of the natives during the summer months . We got under way on the ...
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... circumstance may not be so obvious to others , I shall here briefly explain that , from the manner in which the hummocky floes are formed , it is next to impossible that any of these of considerable extent can ever be produced in a mere ...
... circumstance may not be so obvious to others , I shall here briefly explain that , from the manner in which the hummocky floes are formed , it is next to impossible that any of these of considerable extent can ever be produced in a mere ...
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animals appeared arrived beach board the Fury boats bone breeze canoes Captain Hoppner Captain Lyon circumstance clear close clothes coast Cockburn Island considerable continued course direction distance dogs dovekies drift eastward eight Esquimaux farther fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh Fury's gale Greenland half past halted Hammerfest hauled Hecla huts Igloolik inches inlet journey Kabloonas kind labour land latitude length Lieutenant longitude by chronometers loose ice manner miles morning night noon northward NORTHWEST PASSAGE observed occasion officers open water party pemmican piece provisions quantity quarter reindeer remarkable rest round sail scarcely seahorse season secured seven P.M. ships shore side six A.M. skin sledge snow soon southward Spitzbergen strait Table Island tent thick tion Toolemak travelling usual walrus ward weather westward whale whole wind Winter Island winter passed women yards