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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... navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half past eight on the morning of the 9th , a considerable space of open water being left to the northward 12 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half past eight on the morning of the 9th , a considerable space of open water being left to the northward 12 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. considerable space of open water being left to the northward of us by the ice that had broken off the preceding night , I left the Fury in a boat for the ...
And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. considerable space of open water being left to the northward of us by the ice that had broken off the preceding night , I left the Fury in a boat for the ...
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... considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as possible from her present situation into the bight I had sounded in the morning , where we made fast in five and a half fathoms alongside some very heavy ...
... considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as possible from her present situation into the bight I had sounded in the morning , where we made fast in five and a half fathoms alongside some very heavy ...
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... considerable floe had separated , exactly in a line between the island off which we lay and a second to the westward of it , subsequently named in honour of Lord Amherst . Tacking at the newly - formed margin of the fixed ice , we ...
... considerable floe had separated , exactly in a line between the island off which we lay and a second to the westward of it , subsequently named in honour of Lord Amherst . Tacking at the newly - formed margin of the fixed ice , we ...
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... considerable extent can ever be produced in a mere inlet having a nar- row communication with the sea . There is , in fact , no ice to which the denomination of " sea - ice " may be more strictly and exclusively applied than this ; and ...
... considerable extent can ever be produced in a mere inlet having a nar- row communication with the sea . There is , in fact , no ice to which the denomination of " sea - ice " may be more strictly and exclusively applied than this ; and ...
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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