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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... 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 seeniks ( sleeps ) or days ' journeys , to which , in ...
... 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 seeniks ( sleeps ) or days ' journeys , to which , in ...
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... 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 degree of pressure which , under ...
... 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 degree of pressure which , under ...
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... once struck with the harpoon , the thickness of their skin being such that whale - lances generally bend without pen- etrating it . One of these creatures being accident- ally touched by one of the oars in Lieutenant Nias's boat , took ...
... once struck with the harpoon , the thickness of their skin being such that whale - lances generally bend without pen- etrating it . One of these creatures being accident- ally touched by one of the oars in Lieutenant Nias's boat , took ...
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... once more into the Polar Sea . We found here two divisions of tents , there being eleven where we landed , and five more about half a mile to the northward . By the time we reached the tents we were surrounded by a crowd of men , women ...
... once more into the Polar Sea . We found here two divisions of tents , there being eleven where we landed , and five more about half a mile to the northward . By the time we reached the tents we were surrounded by a crowd of men , women ...
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... once to re- move 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 the different portions of land in sight , many of ...
... once to re- move 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 the different portions of land in sight , many of ...
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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