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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... respecting the Return of the Expedition to Eng- land . Unfavourable State of the Ice at the Eastern Entrance of the Strait . - Proceed to the Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final ...
... respecting the Return of the Expedition to Eng- land . Unfavourable State of the Ice at the Eastern Entrance of the Strait . - Proceed to the Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final ...
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... respect , though each is equally desirous of furnishing cor- rect information ; for , besides their deficiency as arithmeticians , which renders the enumeration of ten a labour , and of fifteen almost an impossibility to many of them ...
... respect , though each is equally desirous of furnishing cor- rect information ; for , besides their deficiency as arithmeticians , which renders the enumeration of ten a labour , and of fifteen almost an impossibility to many of them ...
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... respect that I could ever dis- cover , is the meat of the walrus , when fresh - killed , in the slightest degree unpalatable . The heart and liver are indeed excellent . 99 After an unobstructed night's run , during which we met with no ...
... respect that I could ever dis- cover , is the meat of the walrus , when fresh - killed , in the slightest degree unpalatable . The heart and liver are indeed excellent . 99 After an unobstructed night's run , during which we met with no ...
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... respecting their late and intended movements . This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to re- move all distrust or apprehension , so that we soon found ourselves on the best terms imaginable . In return ...
... respecting their late and intended movements . This , while it excited in them extreme surprise , served also at once to re- move all distrust or apprehension , so that we soon found ourselves on the best terms imaginable . In return ...
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... respecting many of their relationships , that , by the help of a memoran- dum - book in which these had been inserted , I be- lieve we almost at times excited a degree of super- stitious alarm in their minds . This sort of gossip , and ...
... respecting many of their relationships , that , by the help of a memoran- dum - book in which these had been inserted , I be- lieve we almost at times excited a degree of super- stitious alarm in their minds . This sort of gossip , and ...
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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