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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... Sledges up an Inlet to the Westward Page 9 CHAPTER XI . A Whale killed . - Other Charts drawn by the Esquimaux.- Account of a Journey to the Narrows of the Strait . - Discov- ery of the Sea to the Westward . - Total Disruption of the ...
... Sledges up an Inlet to the Westward Page 9 CHAPTER XI . A Whale killed . - Other Charts drawn by the Esquimaux.- Account of a Journey to the Narrows of the Strait . - Discov- ery of the Sea to the Westward . - Total Disruption of the ...
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... Sledges up an Inlet to the westward . THE gale , which had for some time been blow . ing from the northward , veered to the N.W.b. W. , and increased in strength on the 1st of July , which soon began to produce the effect of drifting ...
... Sledges up an Inlet to the westward . THE gale , which had for some time been blow . ing from the northward , veered to the N.W.b. W. , and increased in strength on the 1st of July , which soon began to produce the effect of drifting ...
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... sledge upon the land - floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet them and to bring them on board , be- ing desirous of ascertaining whereabout , according to their geography , we now were . We found the party ...
... sledge upon the land - floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet them and to bring them on board , be- ing desirous of ascertaining whereabout , according to their geography , we now were . We found the party ...
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... sledge , to which we added a quantity of bread . dust , that seemed acceptable enough to them . As our way lay in the same direction as theirs , I would gladly have taken their whole establishment on board the ships to convey them to ...
... sledge , to which we added a quantity of bread . dust , that seemed acceptable enough to them . As our way lay in the same direction as theirs , I would gladly have taken their whole establishment on board the ships to convey them to ...
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... sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time . Dunn and myself made ...
... sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time . Dunn and myself made ...
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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