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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... covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in the winter , serves to exclude the cold air very ... covering as that of the huts . The beds are raised by stones two feet from the ground , and oc- cupy about one third ...
... covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in the winter , serves to exclude the cold air very ... covering as that of the huts . The beds are raised by stones two feet from the ground , and oc- cupy about one third ...
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... went comfortably to sleep ; but at midnight was awakened by a feeling of great warmth , and , to my surprise , found myself covered by a large deerskin , under which lay my friend , his two 34 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... went comfortably to sleep ; but at midnight was awakened by a feeling of great warmth , and , to my surprise , found myself covered by a large deerskin , under which lay my friend , his two 34 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... pleasant valleys covered with grass and oth . er vegetation , and the resort of numerous reindeer , we walked six or seven miles in a direction par . allel to that of the creek ; when , finding 52 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... pleasant valleys covered with grass and oth . er vegetation , and the resort of numerous reindeer , we walked six or seven miles in a direction par . allel to that of the creek ; when , finding 52 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... covered with one continuous and unbroken floe . Having now completely satisfied myself , that , as respected both ice and land , there was no naviga- ble passage for ships about this latitude , no time was lost in setting out on our ...
... covered with one continuous and unbroken floe . Having now completely satisfied myself , that , as respected both ice and land , there was no naviga- ble passage for ships about this latitude , no time was lost in setting out on our ...
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... covered them , that , had it not been for the Esquimaux huts , we should not easily have recognised the place . At noon on the 24th we arrived off the point where the tents had first been pitched , and were immedi- ately greeted by a ...
... covered them , that , had it not been for the Esquimaux huts , we should not easily have recognised the place . At noon on the 24th we arrived off the point where the tents had first been pitched , and were immedi- ately greeted by a ...
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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