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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... four hun . dred yards . The closeness of the ice again obliging us to make fast on the 3d , we soon after perceived a party of people with a sledge upon the land - floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet ...
... four hun . dred yards . The closeness of the ice again obliging us to make fast on the 3d , we soon after perceived a party of people with a sledge upon the land - floe . I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan , with some of our men , to meet ...
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... four or five hundred yards , came to some shoal water extending quite across . Land . ing on the south shore and hauling the boats up above high - water mark , we rambled up the banks of the stream , which are low next the water , but ...
... four or five hundred yards , came to some shoal water extending quite across . Land . ing on the south shore and hauling the boats up above high - water mark , we rambled up the banks of the stream , which are low next the water , but ...
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... four hundred yards in diame- ter , being rather wider than the river immediately below it . After remaining nearly an hour , fixed , as it were , to the spot by the novelty and magnificence of the scene before us , we continued our walk ...
... four hundred yards in diame- ter , being rather wider than the river immediately below it . After remaining nearly an hour , fixed , as it were , to the spot by the novelty and magnificence of the scene before us , we continued our walk ...
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... four of these animals ; but we had no success with the seines , the ground proving altogether too rocky to use them with ad- vantage or safety . We returned on board at thir- ty minutes past two P.M. , after the most gratify- ing visit ...
... four of these animals ; but we had no success with the seines , the ground proving altogether too rocky to use them with ad- vantage or safety . We returned on board at thir- ty minutes past two P.M. , after the most gratify- ing visit ...
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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