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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... Wind . - Preparations to tow the Fury out . - Hecla Re - equipped , and obliged to put to Sea . - Fury again driven on Shore - Rejoin the Fury ; and find it necessary finally to Page 145 abandon her CHAPTER VII . Some Remarks upon the ...
... Wind . - Preparations to tow the Fury out . - Hecla Re - equipped , and obliged to put to Sea . - Fury again driven on Shore - Rejoin the Fury ; and find it necessary finally to Page 145 abandon her CHAPTER VII . Some Remarks upon the ...
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... wind and weather now also sufficiently so , we moved out of our winter's dock , which was , indeed , in part broken to pieces by the swell that had lately set into the bay . At seven we made sail , with a fresh breeze from W.N.W. , and ...
... wind and weather now also sufficiently so , we moved out of our winter's dock , which was , indeed , in part broken to pieces by the swell that had lately set into the bay . At seven we made sail , with a fresh breeze from W.N.W. , and ...
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... wind and tide being favoura- ble , our progress was rapid and unobstructed , and nothing could exceed the interest and delight with which so unusual an event was hailed by us . Be- fore midnight the wind came more off the land , and ...
... wind and tide being favoura- ble , our progress was rapid and unobstructed , and nothing could exceed the interest and delight with which so unusual an event was hailed by us . Be- fore midnight the wind came more off the land , and ...
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... entrance faces the south or southeast ; and as the wind was now blowing fresh from that quar- ter , and thick snow beginning to fall , these habita- tions did not impress us at first sight with a 22 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... entrance faces the south or southeast ; and as the wind was now blowing fresh from that quar- ter , and thick snow beginning to fall , these habita- tions did not impress us at first sight with a 22 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... wind having increased to a gale , which prevented our hearing any of the guns , I reluctantly bore up for our former landing - place . Captain Lyon and his party having quartered themselves at the south . ern tents , we took up our ...
... wind having increased to a gale , which prevented our hearing any of the guns , I reluctantly bore up for our former landing - place . Captain Lyon and his party having quartered themselves at the south . ern tents , we took up our ...
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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