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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... light and variable , after which it set- tled in the northwest , with thick weather for sever- al hours . In the course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of ...
... light and variable , after which it set- tled in the northwest , with thick weather for sever- al hours . In the course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of ...
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... light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular patchwork , form- ing a sort of bag of a shape rather oval than round , and supported near the middle by a rude tent - pole composed of several deer's horns or the ...
... light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular patchwork , form- ing a sort of bag of a shape rather oval than round , and supported near the middle by a rude tent - pole composed of several deer's horns or the ...
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... light and variable , we lay - to for an hour to repay our kind friends for the hospitable reception they had given us . After supplying them abundantly with tin can- isters , knives , and pieces of iron hoop , we hauled to the ...
... light and variable , we lay - to for an hour to repay our kind friends for the hospitable reception they had given us . After supplying them abundantly with tin can- isters , knives , and pieces of iron hoop , we hauled to the ...
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... light from the eastward , but the weather much more clear than before , we weighed and stood over to the main- land with the intention of putting our travellers on shore , but found that coast now so lined with the ice which had lately ...
... light from the eastward , but the weather much more clear than before , we weighed and stood over to the main- land with the intention of putting our travellers on shore , but found that coast now so lined with the ice which had lately ...
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... light on the 30th was as comfortless as can well be imagined for the parties who were just about to find their way among the rocks and precipices . Soon after four A.M. , however , when we had ascertained that the drift - ice was no ...
... light on the 30th was as comfortless as can well be imagined for the parties who were just about to find their way among the rocks and precipices . Soon after four A.M. , however , when we had ascertained that the drift - ice was no ...
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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