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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... course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of drift - ice ; and it hav . ing fallen calm at one P.M. , we despatched our boats to kill some for the sake of the ...
... course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of drift - ice ; and it hav . ing fallen calm at one P.M. , we despatched our boats to kill some for the sake of the ...
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... course , not backward in promoting a good understanding by means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in exchange , and expressing ...
... course , not backward in promoting a good understanding by means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in exchange , and expressing ...
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... course , consigned to the mouths of the hunters . " The weather clearing in the afternoon , one ship was seen in the distance , which diffused a general joy among the people , who ran about screaming and dancing with delight . While ...
... course , consigned to the mouths of the hunters . " The weather clearing in the afternoon , one ship was seen in the distance , which diffused a general joy among the people , who ran about screaming and dancing with delight . While ...
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... course for Igloolik , in order to continue our look - out upon the ice , and made the tents very accurately by the compass , after a run of five leagues . The present state of the ice , which was thin and " rotten , " served no less to ...
... course for Igloolik , in order to continue our look - out upon the ice , and made the tents very accurately by the compass , after a run of five leagues . The present state of the ice , which was thin and " rotten , " served no less to ...
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... course , direct distance six miles . We obtained on every emi- nence a distinct view of the ice the whole way down to Neerlo - nakto , in which space not a drop of clear water was discernible ; the whole of Rich . ards's Bay was filled ...
... course , direct distance six miles . We obtained on every emi- nence a distinct view of the ice the whole way down to Neerlo - nakto , in which space not a drop of clear water was discernible ; the whole of Rich . ards's Bay was filled ...
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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