The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic DiscovererR. Bentley, 1845 - 424 páginas |
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ALEXANDER SIMPSON America Arctic coast Arctic Discovery Arctic Ocean arrived Athabasca August Back's Bear Lake boats brother Canada Canadian canoes Cape Barrow Captain Back Captain Franklin Chief Trader Chipewyan cold Company's Coppermine River crossed Dease Dease's River Deponent distance dogs eastward encampment England Esquimaux establishment expedition exploration extremity fall fatigue Fish River Fort Chipewyan Fort Reliance Governor Simpson Hearne honour hope Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians islands journey July June labours land Legros letter Mackenzie River ments miles mind mouth narrative natives navigation North north-west northern Norway House object officers party passage passed pemican Point Barrow portage pounds proceeded provisions reached Red River Colony Ross route Saulteaux season servants shore Simp Slave Lake snow spring Straits success summer survey thence THOMAS SIMPSON tion trade travelling tribes Victoria Land voyage westward winter York Factory
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Página 24 - As in the succession of the seasons, each, by the invariable laws of Nature, affects the productions of what is next in course ; so, in human life, every period of our age, according as it is well or ill spent, influences the happiness of that which is to follow. Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ; and such manhood passes of itself, without uneasiness, into respectable and tranquil old age. But when nature is turned out of its regular course, disorder takes...
Página 417 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm o...
Página 354 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 14 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Página 318 - ... Great Fish River. This strait is ten miles wide at either extremity, but contracts to three in the centre. Even that narrow channel is much encroached upon by high shingle islands, but there is deep water in the middle throughout. The 12th of August was signalized by the most terrific thunder storm we have ever witnessed in these regions. Next day it blew roughly from the westward, with a very dense cold fog, but we ran rapidly south-east, passed Point Richardson and Point Ogle of Sir George...
Página 24 - If the spring put forth no blossoms, in summer there will be no beauty, and in autumn, no fruit: so, if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will probably be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Página 73 - It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets the kettle on...
Página 319 - The storm shifted to the north-east, and lasted till the 16th, when \ve directed our course, with flags flying, to the Montreal Island. On its northern side our people, guided by Mackay, soon found a deposit made among the rocks by some of Sir George Back's party, but, as Mackay seemed to think, without that officer's knowledge. It contained two bags of...
Página 136 - The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching with a weight of between two and three pounds constantly attached to galled feet, and swelled ankles.
Página 26 - I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.