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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... rest of the tide , and setting off with the ebb which made soon after . In the mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as ...
... rest of the tide , and setting off with the ebb which made soon after . In the mean while the Hecla had been enabled to get under sail , and was making considerable progress towards us , which determined me to move the Fury as soon as ...
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... rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and ... rests on a large stone , to keep it from sinking into the ground , and , being no way secured , is frequently knocked ...
... rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and ... rests on a large stone , to keep it from sinking into the ground , and , being no way secured , is frequently knocked ...
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... rest of the women's utensils , together with great lumps of raw seahorse flesh and blubber , which at this season they enjoy . ed in most disgusting abundance . At the inner end of the tent , which is also the broadest , and oc- cupying ...
... rest of the women's utensils , together with great lumps of raw seahorse flesh and blubber , which at this season they enjoy . ed in most disgusting abundance . At the inner end of the tent , which is also the broadest , and oc- cupying ...
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... rest of the various bones of the whale and walrus , gradu- ally inclining inward and meeting at the top . The crevices , as well as the whole of the outside , were then covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in ...
... rest of the various bones of the whale and walrus , gradu- ally inclining inward and meeting at the top . The crevices , as well as the whole of the outside , were then covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in ...
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... rest , within a few yards of the huts ; and were somewhat inclined to be out of humour on this account with our new friends , who not only treated the matter with the utmost indifference , but , on observing that we were inclined to add ...
... rest , within a few yards of the huts ; and were somewhat inclined to be out of humour on this account with our new friends , who not only treated the matter with the utmost indifference , but , on observing that we were inclined to add ...
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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