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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... remaining stationary for the rest of the tide , and setting off with the ebb which made soon after . In the mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me ...
... remaining stationary for the rest of the tide , and setting off with the ebb which made soon after . In the mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me ...
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... remaining nearly an hour , fixed , as it were , to the spot by the novelty and magnificence of the scene before us , we continued our walk upward along the banks ; and after passing the two small- er cataracts , found the river again ...
... remaining nearly an hour , fixed , as it were , to the spot by the novelty and magnificence of the scene before us , we continued our walk upward along the banks ; and after passing the two small- er cataracts , found the river again ...
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... remaining sent forth the most offensive effluvia . We were not a little surprised to find also a number of human sculls lying about among the rest , within a few yards of the huts ; and were somewhat inclined to be out of humour on this ...
... remaining sent forth the most offensive effluvia . We were not a little surprised to find also a number of human sculls lying about among the rest , within a few yards of the huts ; and were somewhat inclined to be out of humour on this ...
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... remaining conclusion was , that it must have been set into the strait from the westward towards the close of a summer , and cemented in its present situation by the frost of the succeeding winter . A great deal of snow having fallen in ...
... remaining conclusion was , that it must have been set into the strait from the westward towards the close of a summer , and cemented in its present situation by the frost of the succeeding winter . A great deal of snow having fallen in ...
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... remaining extremely mild , no young ice was formed to obstruct our way , and we arrived on board at noon the following day , after an examina- tion peculiarly satisfactory , inasmuch as it proved the non - existence of any water ...
... remaining extremely mild , no young ice was formed to obstruct our way , and we arrived on board at noon the following day , after an examina- tion peculiarly satisfactory , inasmuch as it proved the non - existence of any water ...
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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