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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... Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final Release from the Ice , and Arrival in England . — Remarks upon the practicability of a Northwest Passage • 97 THIRD VOYAGE . INTRODUCTION ...
... Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final Release from the Ice , and Arrival in England . — Remarks upon the practicability of a Northwest Passage • 97 THIRD VOYAGE . INTRODUCTION ...
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... southward with the flood - tide , and assuming its usual threatening appearance . For an hour or two the Fury was continually grazed , and sometimes heeled over by a degree of pressure which , under any other circumstances , would not ...
... southward with the flood - tide , and assuming its usual threatening appearance . For an hour or two the Fury was continually grazed , and sometimes heeled over by a degree of pressure which , under any other circumstances , would not ...
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... southward . We were , of course , not backward in promoting a good understanding by means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in ...
... southward . We were , of course , not backward in promoting a good understanding by means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in ...
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... southward , and the information which we were enabled to give respecting their late and intended movements . This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to re- move all distrust or apprehension , so that we ...
... southward , and the information which we were enabled to give respecting their late and intended movements . This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to re- move all distrust or apprehension , so that we ...
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... southward , and never did any arrival excite more anxious inquiries than those we were now obliged to answer . So intimate was the knowledge we possessed respecting many of their relationships , that , by the help of a memoran- dum ...
... southward , and never did any arrival excite more anxious inquiries than those we were now obliged to answer . So intimate was the knowledge we possessed respecting many of their relationships , that , by the help of a memoran- dum ...
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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