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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And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. Drawn by Cape Lyon HN . Dick . ESKIMAUX BUILDING A SNOW HUT.
And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole Sir William Edward Parry. Drawn by Cape Lyon HN . Dick . ESKIMAUX BUILDING A SNOW HUT.
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... huts , but built with much more durable materials , the lower part or foundation being of stones , and the rest of the various bones of the whale and walrus , gradu- ally inclining inward and meeting at the top . The crevices , as well ...
... huts , but built with much more durable materials , the lower part or foundation being of stones , and the rest of the various bones of the whale and walrus , gradu- ally inclining inward and meeting at the top . The crevices , as well ...
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... huts were lying innumerable bones of walruses and seals , together with sculls of dogs , bears , and foxes , on many of which a part of the putrid flesh still remaining sent forth the most offensive effluvia . We were not a little ...
... huts were lying innumerable bones of walruses and seals , together with sculls of dogs , bears , and foxes , on many of which a part of the putrid flesh still remaining sent forth the most offensive effluvia . We were not a little ...
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... 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 number of Esquimaux , who came running down to the beach ...
... 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 number of Esquimaux , who came running down to the beach ...
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... huts were subsequently lined in the same way within , the skins being attached to the sides and roof by slender threads of whalebone , disposed in large and regular stitches . Before the passages already described , others were now ...
... huts were subsequently lined in the same way within , the skins being attached to the sides and roof by slender threads of whalebone , disposed in large and regular stitches . Before the passages already described , others were now ...
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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