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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... masses of ice ; and the difficulties of such a 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 ...
... masses of ice ; and the difficulties of such a 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 ...
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... masses , perhaps many tons in weight , to the height of fifty or sixty feet , from whence they again rolled down on the inner or land side , and were quickly succeeded by a fresh supply . While we were obliged to be quiet spec- VOL . II ...
... masses , perhaps many tons in weight , to the height of fifty or sixty feet , from whence they again rolled down on the inner or land side , and were quickly succeeded by a fresh supply . While we were obliged to be quiet spec- VOL . II ...
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... mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under it , having lost its super- incumbent weight , rose to the surface with consid . erable force , lifting our rudder violently in its pas- sage , but ...
... mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under it , having lost its super- incumbent weight , rose to the surface with consid . erable force , lifting our rudder violently in its pas- sage , but ...
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... mass of grounded ice for their fu- ture disposal . As we made several tacks off the island next to the northward of Igloolik , called by the Esquimaux Neerlo - Nackto , two canoes came off to us , in one of which was Toolemak . He and ...
... mass of grounded ice for their fu- ture disposal . As we made several tacks off the island next to the northward of Igloolik , called by the Esquimaux Neerlo - Nackto , two canoes came off to us , in one of which was Toolemak . He and ...
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... masses , and , coming close to the Hecla , were all killed . The female proved remarkably small , two or three men being able to lift her into a boat . At half past nine on the morning of the 1st of September , one of our parties was ...
... masses , and , coming close to the Hecla , were all killed . The female proved remarkably small , two or three men being able to lift her into a boat . At half past nine on the morning of the 1st of September , one of our parties was ...
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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