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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... floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet them and to bring them on board , be- ing desirous of ascertaining whereabout , according to their geography , we now were . We found the party to consist , as we ...
... floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet them and to bring them on board , be- ing desirous of ascertaining whereabout , according to their geography , we now were . We found the party to consist , as we ...
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... floe , some miles in length , be- ing probably a part of that lately detached from the shore , came driving down fast towards us , giv . ing us serious reason to apprehend some more fa- tal catastrophe than any we had yet encountered ...
... floe , some miles in length , be- ing probably a part of that lately detached from the shore , came driving down fast towards us , giv . ing us serious reason to apprehend some more fa- tal catastrophe than any we had yet encountered ...
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... floe should now swing in , and serve us much in the same man- ner ; and , secondly , lest its pressure should detach the land - ice to which we were secured , and thus set us adrift and at the mercy of the tides . Hap- pily , however ...
... floe should now swing in , and serve us much in the same man- ner ; and , secondly , lest its pressure should detach the land - ice to which we were secured , and thus set us adrift and at the mercy of the tides . Hap- pily , however ...
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... 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 every side ...
... 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 every side ...
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... floe broke away from the fixed ice , allowing us to gain about half a mile more to the westward ; such was the vexatious slowness with which we were permitted to advance towards the object of our most anxious wishes ! On the 14th I left ...
... floe broke away from the fixed ice , allowing us to gain about half a mile more to the westward ; such was the vexatious slowness with which we were permitted to advance towards the object of our most anxious wishes ! On the 14th I left ...
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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