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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... body once more in rap . id motion to the 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 ...
... body once more in rap . id motion to the 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 ...
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... As we rounded Cape Penrhyn at seven P.M. , we began gradually to lose sight of the ex- ternal body of ice , sailing close along that which was still attached in very heavy floes to this part B 2 OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 17.
... As we rounded Cape Penrhyn at seven P.M. , we began gradually to lose sight of the ex- ternal body of ice , sailing close along that which was still attached in very heavy floes to this part B 2 OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 17.
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... body as the hands could not reach . This was the rib of a seal , having a bunch of the whitest of a deer's hair attached to one end of it , and on this rubbing the places which require it , the little animals stick to it ; from their ...
... body as the hands could not reach . This was the rib of a seal , having a bunch of the whitest of a deer's hair attached to one end of it , and on this rubbing the places which require it , the little animals stick to it ; from their ...
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... body , and cementing them by pouring a little water in the interstices . Such an interment was not likely to be a very se- cure one ; and , accordingly , a few days after , the hungry dogs removed the snow and devoured the body ...
... body , and cementing them by pouring a little water in the interstices . Such an interment was not likely to be a very se- cure one ; and , accordingly , a few days after , the hungry dogs removed the snow and devoured the body ...
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... body should be drawn on a sledge by men in- stead of dogs ; for , to our horror , Takkeelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keimoo . seuk , and that , when he left the huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he ...
... body should be drawn on a sledge by men in- stead of dogs ; for , to our horror , Takkeelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keimoo . seuk , and that , when he left the huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he ...
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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