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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... single day ; a circum- stance which might well excite their wonder , con- sidering that they had themselves been above forty in reaching our present station . They had obtain- ed one reindeer , and had now a large seal on their sledge ...
... single day ; a circum- stance which might well excite their wonder , con- sidering that they had themselves been above forty in reaching our present station . They had obtain- ed one reindeer , and had now a large seal on their sledge ...
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... single glance was sufficient to assure us of the dis- agreeable fact , that it was the ice formed in its present situation during the winter , and still firmly attached to the land on every side . It was certain , from its continuous ...
... single glance was sufficient to assure us of the dis- agreeable fact , that it was the ice formed in its present situation during the winter , and still firmly attached to the land on every side . It was certain , from its continuous ...
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... single article was found to have been removed from its place at our return . At night I was attended by the same bedfellows as before ; the young puppy , however , being now bet- ter acquainted , took up his quarters in my blanket . bag ...
... single article was found to have been removed from its place at our return . At night I was attended by the same bedfellows as before ; the young puppy , however , being now bet- ter acquainted , took up his quarters in my blanket . bag ...
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... single feature of the land ; our present channel being evidently a much wider and more extensive one than that pointed out by Toolemak , on the journey . It became , there- fore , a matter of interest , now that this point was settled ...
... single feature of the land ; our present channel being evidently a much wider and more extensive one than that pointed out by Toolemak , on the journey . It became , there- fore , a matter of interest , now that this point was settled ...
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... single addi- tion had been made to the sick - list of either ship , except by the accident of one man's falling into the canal , who returned to his duty a day or two afterward . While our people were thus employed , the Es- quimaux had ...
... single addi- tion had been made to the sick - list of either ship , except by the accident of one man's falling into the canal , who returned to his duty a day or two afterward . While our people were thus employed , the Es- quimaux had ...
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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