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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... nature of this navigation , which might eventually have put it out of my pow er to land them at the precise place of their des tination . The ice again opening , we were now obliged to dismiss them , after half an hour's visit , when ...
... nature of this navigation , which might eventually have put it out of my pow er to land them at the precise place of their des tination . The ice again opening , we were now obliged to dismiss them , after half an hour's visit , when ...
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... nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in this neighbourhood , before we could hope to sail round the northeastern point of the American con- tinent . At thirty minutes past nine A.M. we observed several tents on the low shore ...
... nature seemed scarcely yet to have commenced in this neighbourhood , before we could hope to sail round the northeastern point of the American con- tinent . At thirty minutes past nine A.M. we observed several tents on the low shore ...
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... mode of construction . Even if it were not the natural and happy dis- position of these people to be pleased , and to place implicit confidence wherever kind treatment is ex- perienced , that OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 23.
... mode of construction . Even if it were not the natural and happy dis- position of these people to be pleased , and to place implicit confidence wherever kind treatment is ex- perienced , that OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 23.
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... natural in- ference , from the nature of these habitations , that these people , or at least a portion of them , were constant residents on this spot , which , indeed , seemed admirably calculated to afford in luxuri- ous profusion all ...
... natural in- ference , from the nature of these habitations , that these people , or at least a portion of them , were constant residents on this spot , which , indeed , seemed admirably calculated to afford in luxuri- ous profusion all ...
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... natural to her sex , kept on a part of her clothes . At ten A.M. we started , and found the sledge on a beach near the southern ice . Four men were to accom- pany us on this vehicle , and the good - natured fel- lows volunteered to ...
... natural to her sex , kept on a part of her clothes . At ten A.M. we started , and found the sledge on a beach near the southern ice . Four men were to accom- pany us on this vehicle , and the good - natured fel- lows volunteered to ...
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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