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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... whole force previous to its final descent , is precipitated , in one vast , continuous sheet of water , almost perpendicular for ninety feet more . The dashing of the water from such a height pro- duced the usual accompaniment of a ...
... whole force previous to its final descent , is precipitated , in one vast , continuous sheet of water , almost perpendicular for ninety feet more . The dashing of the water from such a height pro- duced the usual accompaniment of a ...
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... whole number near the boats being per- haps about two hundred . Most of them waited quietly to be fired at : and even after one or two discharges did not seem to be greatly disturbed , but allowed the people to land on the ice near them ...
... whole number near the boats being per- haps about two hundred . Most of them waited quietly to be fired at : and even after one or two discharges did not seem to be greatly disturbed , but allowed the people to land on the ice near them ...
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... whole fabric in an erect position , a line of thong is extended from the top , on the side where the door is , to a larger stone placed at some dis- tance . The door consists merely of two flaps , contrived so as to overlap one another ...
... whole fabric in an erect position , a line of thong is extended from the top , on the side where the door is , to a larger stone placed at some dis- tance . The door consists merely of two flaps , contrived so as to overlap one another ...
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... whole apartment , their 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 ...
... whole apartment , their 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 ...
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... whole of the outside , were then covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in the winter , serves to exclude the cold air very effectually . The entrance is to- wards the south , and consists of a passage ten feet ...
... whole of the outside , were then covered with turf , which , with the additional coating of snow in the winter , serves to exclude the cold air very effectually . The entrance is to- wards the south , and consists of a passage ten feet ...
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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