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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... 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 have been considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three ...
... 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 have been considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three ...
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... appeared a likely one for salmon . Immediately on opening the inlet we encountered a rapid current setting outward , and , after rowing a mile and a half to the N.W.b. W. , the breadth of the stream varying from one third of a mile to ...
... appeared a likely one for salmon . Immediately on opening the inlet we encountered a rapid current setting outward , and , after rowing a mile and a half to the N.W.b. W. , the breadth of the stream varying from one third of a mile to ...
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... appeared insular in sailing along shore . approached this headland , which I named after my friend Mr. PENRHYN , the prospect became more and more enlivening ; for the sea was found to be navigable in a degree very seldom experienced in ...
... appeared insular in sailing along shore . approached this headland , which I named after my friend Mr. PENRHYN , the prospect became more and more enlivening ; for the sea was found to be navigable in a degree very seldom experienced in ...
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... appearance for some miles that we ran along its edge , that it had suffered no dis- ruption this season , which circumstance involved the necessity of our awaiting that operation , which nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in ...
... appearance for some miles that we ran along its edge , that it had suffered no dis- ruption this season , which circumstance involved the necessity of our awaiting that operation , which nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in ...
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... appeared to us in a snowstorm , they are , in gen- eral , not deficient in warmth as summer residences ; and , being easily removed from place to place , they are certainly well suited to the wants and habits of this wandering people ...
... appeared to us in a snowstorm , they are , in gen- eral , not deficient in warmth as summer residences ; and , being easily removed from place to place , they are certainly well suited to the wants and habits of this wandering people ...
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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