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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... Strait . - Discov- ery of the Sea to the Westward . - Total Disruption of the Ice at the Eastern Entrance of the Strait . - Instance of local Attraction on the Compasses . - Sail through the Narrows , and again stopped by fixed Ice ...
... Strait . - Discov- ery of the Sea to the Westward . - Total Disruption of the Ice at the Eastern Entrance of the Strait . - Instance of local Attraction on the Compasses . - Sail through the Narrows , and again stopped by fixed Ice ...
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... Strait . - Proceed to the Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final Release from the Ice , and Arrival in England . - Remarks upon the practicability of a Northwest Passage 97 ...
... Strait . - Proceed to the Southward . - Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet . - Decease of Mr. George Fife . - Final Release from the Ice , and Arrival in England . - Remarks upon the practicability of a Northwest Passage 97 ...
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... Strait of the Fury and Hecla . - Progress opposed by a fixed barrier of Ice . - Communicate with the Natives of Igloolik . --- Unsuccessful Attempt to get between the Ice and the Land Land upon the Calthorpe Islands . - The Fury drifted ...
... Strait of the Fury and Hecla . - Progress opposed by a fixed barrier of Ice . - Communicate with the Natives of Igloolik . --- Unsuccessful Attempt to get between the Ice and the Land Land upon the Calthorpe Islands . - The Fury drifted ...
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... strait lay that was to lead us to the westward . So far all was satisfactory ; but , after sailing a few miles farther , it is impossible to describe our dis- appointment and mortification in perceiving an un- broken sheet of ice ...
... strait lay that was to lead us to the westward . So far all was satisfactory ; but , after sailing a few miles farther , it is impossible to describe our dis- appointment and mortification in perceiving an un- broken sheet of ice ...
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... strait which , as we hoped , was to conduct us 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 ...
... strait which , as we hoped , was to conduct us 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 ...
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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