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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... navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half past eight on the morning of the 9th , a considerable space of open water being left to the northward 12 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... navigation may be conceived from the following description of what happened to us on the 9th . At half past eight on the morning of the 9th , a considerable space of open water being left to the northward 12 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... eight dogs , while our team 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 ...
... eight dogs , while our team 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 ...
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... eight hours . Our little hunting - tent just held Dunn and myself , although not in a very con- venient manner ; but it answered the purpose of keeping us dry , except from a stream of water that ran under us all night . " The morning ...
... eight hours . Our little hunting - tent just held Dunn and myself , although not in a very con- venient manner ; but it answered the purpose of keeping us dry , except from a stream of water that ran under us all night . " The morning ...
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... any we had seen since making Iglooik ; some of the hummocks , as we afterward found , measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea . The different character now assumed by the ice , while OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 47 .
... any we had seen since making Iglooik ; some of the hummocks , as we afterward found , measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea . The different character now assumed by the ice , while OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 47 .
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... eight we arrived on board , where I was happy to find that all our parties had returned without accident , except that Lieutenant Palmer had been wounded in his hand and temporarily blinded by a gun accidentally going off , from which ...
... eight we arrived on board , where I was happy to find that all our parties had returned without accident , except that Lieutenant Palmer had been wounded in his hand and temporarily blinded by a gun accidentally going off , from which ...
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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