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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... latitude , Captain Lyon could not , on approach- ing the narrows , recognise a 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 ...
... latitude , Captain Lyon could not , on approach- ing the narrows , recognise a 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 ...
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... latitude , by account from noon , be- ing now 69 ° 28 ' , we felt confident that a short walk directly to the south must bring us to any strait communicating with that inlet , and we therefore pushed on in confident expectation of being ...
... latitude , by account from noon , be- ing now 69 ° 28 ' , we felt confident that a short walk directly to the south must bring us to any strait communicating with that inlet , and we therefore pushed on in confident expectation of being ...
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... latitude , no time was lost in setting out on our return . At half past eight we arrived on board , where I was happy to find that all our parties had returned without accident , except that Lieutenant Palmer had been wounded in his ...
... latitude , no time was lost in setting out on our return . At half past eight we arrived on board , where I was happy to find that all our parties had returned without accident , except that Lieutenant Palmer had been wounded in his ...
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... latitude . There were , besides , some other circumstances , which served to distinguish this winter from any preceding one we had passed in the ice . One of the most remarkable of these was the frequent occurrence of hard , well ...
... latitude . There were , besides , some other circumstances , which served to distinguish this winter from any preceding one we had passed in the ice . One of the most remarkable of these was the frequent occurrence of hard , well ...
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... latitude . Even in this comparatively low parallel , the change seemed suf- ficiently remarkable ; for , soon after the middle of March , only ten weeks after the sun's reappearance above the horizon , a bright twilight appeared at ...
... latitude . Even in this comparatively low parallel , the change seemed suf- ficiently remarkable ; for , soon after the middle of March , only ten weeks after the sun's reappearance above the horizon , a bright twilight appeared at ...
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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