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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... CONTINUED . CHAPTER X. Departure from Winter Island . - Meet with some_Esquimaux travelling to the Northward . - Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and Tides . - Discovery of the Barrow River , and its Fall . Favourable Passage to the ...
... CONTINUED . CHAPTER X. Departure from Winter Island . - Meet with some_Esquimaux travelling to the Northward . - Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and Tides . - Discovery of the Barrow River , and its Fall . Favourable Passage to the ...
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... CONTINUED . CHAPTER X. Departure from Winter Island . - Meet with some_Esquimaux travelling to the Northward . - Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and Tides . - Discovery of the Barrow River , and its Fall . - Favourable Passage to ...
... CONTINUED . CHAPTER X. Departure from Winter Island . - Meet with some_Esquimaux travelling to the Northward . - Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and Tides . - Discovery of the Barrow River , and its Fall . - Favourable Passage to ...
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... continued our progress northward , contend- ing with the flood - tide and the drifting masses of ice ; and the difficulties of such a navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half ...
... continued our progress northward , contend- ing with the flood - tide and the drifting masses of ice ; and the difficulties of such a navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half ...
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... continued our walk upward along the banks ; and after passing the two small- er cataracts , found the river again increased in width to above two hundred yards , winding in the most romantic manner imaginable among the hills , and ...
... continued our walk upward along the banks ; and after passing the two small- er cataracts , found the river again increased in width to above two hundred yards , winding in the most romantic manner imaginable among the hills , and ...
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... continued till near midnight , when the numerous visiters in our tents began to retire to their own and to leave us to our repose . VOL . II . - C Awaking at four A.M. on the 17th , I found OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 25.
... continued till near midnight , when the numerous visiters in our tents began to retire to their own and to leave us to our repose . VOL . II . - C Awaking at four A.M. on the 17th , I found OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 25.
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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