Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen2Harper, 1843 |
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And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. Drawn by Cape Lyon HN . Dick . ESKIMAUX BUILDING A SNOW HUT.
And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. Drawn by Cape Lyon HN . Dick . ESKIMAUX BUILDING A SNOW HUT.
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... 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 INTRODUCTION THIRD VOYAGE . CHAPTER I. Page 114 Passage to iv CONTENTS .
... 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 INTRODUCTION THIRD VOYAGE . CHAPTER I. Page 114 Passage to iv CONTENTS .
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... Lyon and his people , they returned to their sledge as fast as their loads of presents would al- low them . We continued our progress northward , contend- ing with the flood - tide and the drifting masses of ice ; and the difficulties ...
... Lyon and his people , they returned to their sledge as fast as their loads of presents would al- low them . We continued our progress northward , contend- ing with the flood - tide and the drifting masses of ice ; and the difficulties ...
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... Lyon and myself named after our friend Mr. BARROW , Secretary to the Admiralty , was the richness of the vegetation on its banks , the enlivening brilliancy of a cloudless sky , and the an . imation given to the scene by several ...
... Lyon and myself named after our friend Mr. BARROW , Secretary to the Admiralty , was the richness of the vegetation on its banks , the enlivening brilliancy of a cloudless sky , and the an . imation given to the scene by several ...
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... Lyon's boat , made a resolute attack upon her , and injured several of the planks with its enor mous tusks . A number of the others came round them , also repeatedly striking the wounded animals with their tusks , with the intention ...
... Lyon's boat , made a resolute attack upon her , and injured several of the planks with its enor mous tusks . A number of the others came round them , also repeatedly striking the wounded animals with their tusks , with the intention ...
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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 extreme farther fathoms favourable feet five floe 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