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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... mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as possible from her present situation into the bight I had sounded in the morning ...
... mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as possible from her present situation into the bight I had sounded in the morning ...
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... means remarkable for the largeness of its dimensions . The peculiar barking noise made by the walrus when irritated , may be heard , on a calm day , with great distinctness at the dis- tance of two miles at least . We found musket ...
... means remarkable for the largeness of its dimensions . The peculiar barking noise made by the walrus when irritated , may be heard , on a calm day , with great distinctness at the dis- tance of two miles at least . We found musket ...
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... means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in exchange , and expressing hesitation and surprise when we declined accepting it ...
... means of such presents as we had brought with us , but they seemed to have no idea of our giving them anything gratis , always offering some trifle in exchange , and expressing hesitation and surprise when we declined accepting it ...
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... means of the Esqui . maux themselves , in which we at length so far suc- ceeded , that Toolemak promised , for certain valu . able considerations of wood and iron , to set out on this errand the following day . Shortly after I returned ...
... means of the Esqui . maux themselves , in which we at length so far suc- ceeded , that Toolemak promised , for certain valu . able considerations of wood and iron , to set out on this errand the following day . Shortly after I returned ...
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... for , I had leisure to consider in what manner , hampered as the ships were by the present state of the ice , our means and exer . This tions might , during this unavoidable detention , be employed OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 45.
... for , I had leisure to consider in what manner , hampered as the ships were by the present state of the ice , our means and exer . This tions might , during this unavoidable detention , be employed OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 45.
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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