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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... miles to three or 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 ...
... miles to three or 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 ...
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... miles in length , be- ing probably a part of that lately detached from the shore , came driving down fast towards us ... mile and a half an hour , with a point of the land . ice left the preceding night by its own separation , breaking ...
... miles in length , be- ing probably a part of that lately detached from the shore , came driving down fast towards us ... mile and a half an hour , with a point of the land . ice left the preceding night by its own separation , breaking ...
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... mile from a point of land lying next to the northward of Cape Wilson , and which is low for a short dis- tance next the sea . At nine o'clock a large mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under ...
... mile from a point of land lying next to the northward of Cape Wilson , and which is low for a short dis- tance next the sea . At nine o'clock a large mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under ...
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... mile and a half to the N.W.b. W. , the breadth of the stream varying from one third of a mile to 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 ...
... mile and a half to the N.W.b. W. , the breadth of the stream varying from one third of a mile to 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 ...
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... manner imaginable among the hills , and preserving a smooth and unruffled surface for a distance of three or four miles that we traced it to the southwest above the fall . What added ex- 16 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... manner imaginable among the hills , and preserving a smooth and unruffled surface for a distance of three or four miles that we traced it to the southwest above the fall . What added ex- 16 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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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