Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions: With Detailed Notices of the Expeditions in Search of the Missing Vessals Under Sir John FranklinGeo. H. Derby and Company, 1852 - 396 páginas |
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... walls of snow , and renewing their clothing with the spoils of the shaggy monarch of those solitudes , the polar bear , whose capture stimulates their energies and invigorates their powers . While such a hope is strong viii INTRODUCTION .
... walls of snow , and renewing their clothing with the spoils of the shaggy monarch of those solitudes , the polar bear , whose capture stimulates their energies and invigorates their powers . While such a hope is strong viii INTRODUCTION .
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... Polar seas , till the commencement of the following century , when an expedition was fitted out at the ex- pense of certain merchants of London . To this attempt several others succeeded at different periods , and all of them were ...
... Polar seas , till the commencement of the following century , when an expedition was fitted out at the ex- pense of certain merchants of London . To this attempt several others succeeded at different periods , and all of them were ...
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... Polar regions . Although it is absurd to impute the direct responsi- bility for these expeditions to any other quarter than the several administrations during which they were undertaken , there can be no question but that these ...
... Polar regions . Although it is absurd to impute the direct responsi- bility for these expeditions to any other quarter than the several administrations during which they were undertaken , there can be no question but that these ...
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... Polar Ice ; On Behring's Straits and the Polar Basin ; On Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay ; On Parry's First Voy- age ; Kotzebue's Voyage ; Franklin's First Expedition ; Parry's Second and Third Voyages , and Attempt to Reach the Pole ...
... Polar Ice ; On Behring's Straits and the Polar Basin ; On Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay ; On Parry's First Voy- age ; Kotzebue's Voyage ; Franklin's First Expedition ; Parry's Second and Third Voyages , and Attempt to Reach the Pole ...
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... Polar seas of the northern hemi- sphere clustered with lands , that the long winter months serve to accumulate filed ice to a prodigious extent , so as to form an almost impenetrable barrier of hyper- Dorean frost- " A crystal pavement ...
... Polar seas of the northern hemi- sphere clustered with lands , that the long winter months serve to accumulate filed ice to a prodigious extent , so as to form an almost impenetrable barrier of hyper- Dorean frost- " A crystal pavement ...
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Admiralty Arctic arrived attempt August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait boats Boothia Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander Coppermine Coppermine River course crew deer direction discovery dispatched drift eastward endeavor England Enterprise Erebus and Terror Esquimaux examine expedition exploring feet floes frozen Fury gale harbor Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey July June Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut Lieutenant Mackenzie River Melville Island miles named navigation North Somerset northern northward northwest passage officers pack Parry's party passage passed Plover Polar Sea proceeded provisions quarters reached Regent Inlet Repulse Bay Rescue Richardson Ross's sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow southward Spitzbergen tion vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter