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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... consisted of a floe so level and continuous , that a single glance was sufficient to assure us of the dis- agreeable fact , that it was the ice formed in its present situation during the winter , and still firmly attached to the land on ...
... consisted of a floe so level and continuous , that a single glance was sufficient to assure us of the dis- agreeable fact , that it was the ice formed in its present situation during the winter , and still firmly attached to the land on ...
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... consisted of several seal and walrus skins , the former dressed without the hair , and the latter with the thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put ...
... consisted of several seal and walrus skins , the former dressed without the hair , and the latter with the thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put ...
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... consisted of eleven . The weather was so thick that at times we could not see a quarter of a mile before us , but yet went rapidly forward to the W.N.W. , when , after about six hours , we came to a high , bold land , and a great number ...
... consisted of eleven . The weather was so thick that at times we could not see a quarter of a mile before us , but yet went rapidly forward to the W.N.W. , when , after about six hours , we came to a high , bold land , and a great number ...
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... consisted in drawing a piece of sinew up their nostrils and producing the end out of their mouths . The elder people were , for the most part , in chase of the tormentors , which swarm- ed in their head and clothes ; and I saw , for the ...
... consisted in drawing a piece of sinew up their nostrils and producing the end out of their mouths . The elder people were , for the most part , in chase of the tormentors , which swarm- ed in their head and clothes ; and I saw , for the ...
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... consisted of Mr. Bush- nan , with three men , under the command of Lieu- tenant Reid , who was instructed to proceed along the continental coast to the westward , to gain as much information as possible respecting the termi- nation of ...
... consisted of Mr. Bush- nan , with three men , under the command of Lieu- tenant Reid , who was instructed to proceed along the continental coast to the westward , to gain as much information as possible respecting the termi- nation of ...
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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