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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... considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three days ' navigation had taught us to disregard , when compared with what we had reason almost every moment to expect . A little before noon a heavy floe , some miles in length ...
... considered a moderate one , but which the last two or three days ' navigation had taught us to disregard , when compared with what we had reason almost every moment to expect . A little before noon a heavy floe , some miles in length ...
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... re - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though 30 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... re - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though 30 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though very comfortless for Captain Lyon on his excursion . The weather at length clearing up in ...
And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though very comfortless for Captain Lyon on his excursion . The weather at length clearing up in ...
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... considered at the time as some confirmation of our own surmises respecting the badness of the past summer . When we told them we were come to winter among them , they expressed very great , and , doubtless , very sin- cere delight , and ...
... considered at the time as some confirmation of our own surmises respecting the badness of the past summer . When we told them we were come to winter among them , they expressed very great , and , doubtless , very sin- cere delight , and ...
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... considered by them most fa- vourable for their fishing , as these served to bring in the loose ice , on which they principally kill the walruses . Towards the latter end of January [ 1823 ] , the accounts from the huts , as well from ...
... considered by them most fa- vourable for their fishing , as these served to bring in the loose ice , on which they principally kill the walruses . Towards the latter end of January [ 1823 ] , the accounts from the huts , as well from ...
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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