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I may at once remark , however , that great caution is requisite in judging of the
informa . tion these people give of the distances from one place to another , as
expressed by the number of seēniks ( sleeps ) or days ' journeys , to which , in
other ...
I may at once remark , however , that great caution is requisite in judging of the
informa . tion these people give of the distances from one place to another , as
expressed by the number of seēniks ( sleeps ) or days ' journeys , to which , in
other ...
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On my return , I found the external body once more in rap . id motion to the
southward with the flood - tide , and assuming its usual threatening appearance .
For an hour or two the Fury was continually grazed , and sometimes heeled over
by a ...
On my return , I found the external body once more in rap . id motion to the
southward with the flood - tide , and assuming its usual threatening appearance .
For an hour or two the Fury was continually grazed , and sometimes heeled over
by a ...
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We found musketballs the most certain and expeditious way of de . spatching
them after they had been once struck with the harpoon , the thickness of their skin
being such that whale - lances generally bend without penetrating it . One of
these ...
We found musketballs the most certain and expeditious way of de . spatching
them after they had been once struck with the harpoon , the thickness of their skin
being such that whale - lances generally bend without penetrating it . One of
these ...
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... piece of information , namely , that it was Igloolik on which we were now about
to land , and that we must therefore have made a very near approach to the strait
which , as we hoped , was to conduct us once more into the Polar Sea .
... piece of information , namely , that it was Igloolik on which we were now about
to land , and that we must therefore have made a very near approach to the strait
which , as we hoped , was to conduct us once more into the Polar Sea .
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This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to remove all
distrust or apprehension , so that we soon found ourselves on the best terms
imaginable . In return for all this interesting information , they gave us the names
of ...
This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to remove all
distrust or apprehension , so that we soon found ourselves on the best terms
imaginable . In return for all this interesting information , they gave us the names
of ...
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| Título | 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, Volumen2 School District Library, no. 100-[101?] 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, Sir William Edward Parry |
| Autor | Sir William Edward Parry |
| Editor | Harper, 1843 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad Estatal de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 23 Mayo 2013 |
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