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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... keep it from sinking into the ground , and , being no way secured , is 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 ...
... keep it from sinking into the ground , and , being no way secured , is 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 ...
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... whole party , who after . ward lay down to sleep on the rocks , having merely a piece of skin to keep the rain from their faces . In this comfortless state they remained very quiet- ly for 32 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... whole party , who after . ward lay down to sleep on the rocks , having merely a piece of skin to keep the rain from their faces . In this comfortless state they remained very quiet- ly for 32 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... keeping us dry , except from a stream of water that ran under us all night . " The morning of the 27th was rather fine for a short time , and we saw above thirty islands , which I named COXE'S GROUP , varying in size from one hundred ...
... keeping us dry , except from a stream of water that ran under us all night . " The morning of the 27th was rather fine for a short time , and we saw above thirty islands , which I named COXE'S GROUP , varying in size from one hundred ...
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... keep alive our hopes and expectations . The spaces occupied respectively by ice and holes were about equal ; and so extensive and danger . ous were the latter , that the men could with ex . trenie difficulty walk twenty or thirty yards ...
... keep alive our hopes and expectations . The spaces occupied respectively by ice and holes were about equal ; and so extensive and danger . ous were the latter , that the men could with ex . trenie difficulty walk twenty or thirty yards ...
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... Keeping all our canvass spread , we then tried to break the thin edges about the numerous holes , by dropping weights over the bows , as well as by various other equally ineffectual expedients ; but the ice was " tough " enough to ...
... Keeping all our canvass spread , we then tried to break the thin edges about the numerous holes , by dropping weights over the bows , as well as by various other equally ineffectual expedients ; but the ice was " tough " enough to ...
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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