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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... frequently knocked down by persons accident- ally coming against it , and again replaced upon the stone . The lower borders of the skins are held down by stones laid on them outside ; and , to keep the whole fabric in an erect position ...
... frequently knocked down by persons accident- ally coming against it , and again replaced upon the stone . The lower borders of the skins are held down by stones laid on them outside ; and , to keep the whole fabric in an erect position ...
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... frequently called out tima , a word which , according to Hearne , signifies in the Esquimaux language , " What cheer ! " and which Captain Franklin heard frequently used on first accosting the natives at the mouth of the Coppermine ...
... frequently called out tima , a word which , according to Hearne , signifies in the Esquimaux language , " What cheer ! " and which Captain Franklin heard frequently used on first accosting the natives at the mouth of the Coppermine ...
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... frequent resort of the natives during the summer months . We got under way on the 21st , were off Cape Northeast on the 26th , and I gave the name of CAPE OSSORY to the eastern point of the northern land of the Narrows ; but on that day ...
... frequent resort of the natives during the summer months . We got under way on the 21st , were off Cape Northeast on the 26th , and I gave the name of CAPE OSSORY to the eastern point of the northern land of the Narrows ; but on that day ...
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... frequently repeated the expressions " Owyak Na - o ! " ( no summer ) , " Took- too Na - o ! " ( no reindeer ) , which we considered at the time as some confirmation of our own surmises respecting the badness of the past summer . When we ...
... frequently repeated the expressions " Owyak Na - o ! " ( no summer ) , " Took- too Na - o ! " ( no reindeer ) , which we considered at the time as some confirmation of our own surmises respecting the badness of the past summer . When we ...
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... frequently at zero , and once as low as -9 ° in that interval . It was satisfactory , moreover , to find , that in the performance of this , not a single addi tion had been made to the sick - list of either ship , except by the accident ...
... frequently at zero , and once as low as -9 ° in that interval . It was satisfactory , moreover , to find , that in the performance of this , not a single addi tion had been made to the sick - list of either ship , except by the accident ...
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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