The Arctic regions. To which is added, the recovery of the Resolute. With discoveries by captain McClintock |
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... Fish River is commenced . - Frightful nature of the precipices , rapids , falls , ravines , & c . - Meet with old acquaint- ances . - Obliged to return to their winter quarters . - Dreadful sufferings of the Indians . - Famine and ...
... Fish River is commenced . - Frightful nature of the precipices , rapids , falls , ravines , & c . - Meet with old acquaint- ances . - Obliged to return to their winter quarters . - Dreadful sufferings of the Indians . - Famine and ...
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... river , and contented himself with despatching , on the 29th , Mr. Back and ... fish they could catch , and the success of their Indian hunters , for food ... River early in May , as they then go to the sea coast to bring forth their ...
... river , and contented himself with despatching , on the 29th , Mr. Back and ... fish they could catch , and the success of their Indian hunters , for food ... River early in May , as they then go to the sea coast to bring forth their ...
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... fish , and their meals , which had hitherto been scanty enough , were now ... River , under the charge of Dr. Richardson , consisting , in all , voyageurs ... river , were fortunate in killing occasionally several musk oxen . On the 15th ...
... fish , and their meals , which had hitherto been scanty enough , were now ... River , under the charge of Dr. Richardson , consisting , in all , voyageurs ... river , were fortunate in killing occasionally several musk oxen . On the 15th ...
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... fish , without success , so that their only fare was skin and tea . At night , composing them- selves to rest , they ... river , about half a mile from the house ; they remained there a long time , but none of the party felt themselves ...
... fish , without success , so that their only fare was skin and tea . At night , composing them- selves to rest , they ... river , about half a mile from the house ; they remained there a long time , but none of the party felt themselves ...
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... Fish River , since appro- priately named after Back himself . On the 19th of August they began the ascent of the Hoar Frost River , whose course was a series of the most fearful cascades and rapids . The woods here were so thick as to ...
... Fish River , since appro- priately named after Back himself . On the 19th of August they began the ascent of the Hoar Frost River , whose course was a series of the most fearful cascades and rapids . The woods here were so thick as to ...
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Admiralty animals arrived attempt August Back's Baffin's Bay Barrow Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait birds boats Boothia Cape Walker Capt Captain Back Captain Parry coast command Coppermine River crew deer despatched direction discovered discovery drift eastward endeavour England Enterprise Erebus and Terror Esquimaux expedition exploring fate feet Fish River floes frozen Fury harbour Hecla Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey July June killed Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut Lieutenant M'Clure Mackenzie Mackenzie River Melville Island miles months named navigation North Somerset north-west passage northern northward observed officers party passed Polar Sea probably proceeded provisions reached Regent Inlet reindeer Repulse Bay Richardson Ross's sailed season seen sent ships shore Sir Edward Parry Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin sledge snow southward Spitzbergen summer tion travelling vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel westward whale
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Página 100 - Medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him.
Página 47 - An Act for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the North Pole.
Página 123 - Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 11' 00" N., and longitude 94° 30' 0
Página 109 - But the ludicrous soon took the place of all other feelings ; in such a crowd and such confusion, all serious thought was impossible, while the new buoyancy of our spirits made us abundantly willing to be amused by the scene which now opened. Every man was hungry, and was to be fed ; all were ragged, and were to be clothed ; there was not one to whom washing was not indispensable, nor one whom his beard did not deprive of all human semblance. All, every thing too, was to be done at once : it was...
Página 34 - Previous to setting out the whole party ate the remains of their old shoes and whatever scraps of leather they had to strengthen their stomachs for the fatigue of the day's journey.
Página 204 - Ye pray for the silly seal. Sir John, where are the English fields ? And where are the English trees? And where are the little English flowers That open in the breeze? Be still, be still, my brave sailors...
Página 243 - ... under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions. Of those found on the island one was supposed to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his sbouldeni, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of many of the corpses...
Página 145 - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Página 243 - Land, which is a large island. None of the party could speak the Esquimaux language intelligibly; but by signs the natives were made to understand that their ship, or ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom except one officer looked thin, they were then supposed to be getting short of provisions ; and they purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later date...