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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... 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 hold of it between its flippers , and , forcibly ...
... 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 hold of it between its flippers , and , forcibly ...
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... skins , the former dressed without the hair , and the latter with the thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular ...
... skins , the former dressed without the hair , and the latter with the thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular ...
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... skins are laid as a bed , having under them some of the andromeda tetragona when the ground is hard , but in this case placed on the bare dry shingle . Comfortless as these simple habitations appeared to us in a snowstorm , they are ...
... skins are laid as a bed , having under them some of the andromeda tetragona when the ground is hard , but in this case placed on the bare dry shingle . Comfortless as these simple habitations appeared to us in a snowstorm , they are ...
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... skin , all na- ked except the lady , who , with the decorum natural to her sex , kept on a part of her clothes . At ten A.M. we started , and found the sledge on a beach near the southern ice . Four men were to accom- pany us on this ...
... skin , all na- ked except the lady , who , with the decorum natural to her sex , kept on a part of her clothes . At ten A.M. we started , and found the sledge on a beach near the southern ice . Four men were to accom- pany us on this ...
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... skin was taken from the sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time ...
... skin was taken from the sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time ...
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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