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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... provision , Captain Lyon left us at ten P.M. when I made sail to re - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving ...
... provision , Captain Lyon left us at ten P.M. when I made sail to re - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving ...
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... provisions with them , I distributed our four days ' allowance of meat in equal proportions to the 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 ...
... provisions with them , I distributed our four days ' allowance of meat in equal proportions to the 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 ...
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... provisions for ten days , intending , if possible , to reach the main land at a point where we could overlook the strait . this we succeeded after a journey of four days , arriving on the morning of the 18th at the extreme northern ...
... provisions for ten days , intending , if possible , to reach the main land at a point where we could overlook the strait . this we succeeded after a journey of four days , arriving on the morning of the 18th at the extreme northern ...
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... provision and fuel was , in case of accidents , estab- lished on the beach ; and Lieutenant Palmer took in his boat a supply for nine days . On the 31st the wind blew fresh and cold from the northwest , which caused a quantity of ice to ...
... provision and fuel was , in case of accidents , estab- lished on the beach ; and Lieutenant Palmer took in his boat a supply for nine days . On the 31st the wind blew fresh and cold from the northwest , which caused a quantity of ice to ...
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... provision , and as small a weight of clothing as possible . The coast , though not bad for travel- ling , led us so much more to the westward than I expected , in consequence of its numerous indenta- tions , that , after above five ...
... provision , and as small a weight of clothing as possible . The coast , though not bad for travel- ling , led us so much more to the westward than I expected , in consequence of its numerous indenta- tions , that , after above five ...
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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