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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... less applause , according to the oddity of their grimaces . At length a witty fellow , in consequence of some whis- pering and tittering among the ladies , advanced and gave me the koonik , which challenge I was obliged to answer by ...
... less applause , according to the oddity of their grimaces . At length a witty fellow , in consequence of some whis- pering and tittering among the ladies , advanced and gave me the koonik , which challenge I was obliged to answer by ...
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... less to excite our surprise than to keep alive our hopes and expectations . The spaces occupied respectively by ice and holes were about equal ; and so extensive and danger- ous were the latter , that the men could with ex- treme ...
... less to excite our surprise than to keep alive our hopes and expectations . The spaces occupied respectively by ice and holes were about equal ; and so extensive and danger- ous were the latter , that the men could with ex- treme ...
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... less than an hour and a half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet ...
... less than an hour and a half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet ...
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... less numerous than in any other places on which we had hitherto landed . This circumstance rather seemed to intimate , as we afterward found to be the case , that the shores of the strait and its immediate neighbourhood are not a ...
... less numerous than in any other places on which we had hitherto landed . This circumstance rather seemed to intimate , as we afterward found to be the case , that the shores of the strait and its immediate neighbourhood are not a ...
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... less nature as at first ! As soon as the anchors were dropped , my atten- tion was once more turned to the main object of the expedition , from which it had for a moment been diverted by the necessity of exerting every effort for the ...
... less nature as at first ! As soon as the anchors were dropped , my atten- tion was once more turned to the main object of the expedition , from which it had for a moment been diverted by the necessity of exerting every effort for the ...
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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