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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... crews can be mustered from the naval service of the United States , our shores are safe from foreign invasion , and our country from all assaults save those of the demon of domestic discord ; if we perish , it will be suicidally . While ...
... crews can be mustered from the naval service of the United States , our shores are safe from foreign invasion , and our country from all assaults save those of the demon of domestic discord ; if we perish , it will be suicidally . While ...
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... crew at the most fatiguing work , some- times for several days and nights without intermission . When this was the case , an extra meal was served to them at midnight , generally of preserved meat ; and it was found that this ...
... crew at the most fatiguing work , some- times for several days and nights without intermission . When this was the case , an extra meal was served to them at midnight , generally of preserved meat ; and it was found that this ...
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... crew appointed to these vessels were : Dorothea , 382 tons . Captain - David Buchan . Lieutenant- A. Morell . Surgeon - John Duke . Assistant Surgeon - W . G. Borland . Purser John Jermain . Astronomer - George Fisher . Admiralty Mates ...
... crew appointed to these vessels were : Dorothea , 382 tons . Captain - David Buchan . Lieutenant- A. Morell . Surgeon - John Duke . Assistant Surgeon - W . G. Borland . Purser John Jermain . Astronomer - George Fisher . Admiralty Mates ...
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... crew of a single ship in the course of six or seven hours . The progress of the discovery ships through the small floes and huge masses of ice which floated in succes- sion past , was slow , and these , from their novelty , were ...
... crew of a single ship in the course of six or seven hours . The progress of the discovery ships through the small floes and huge masses of ice which floated in succes- sion past , was slow , and these , from their novelty , were ...
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... crews . The Trent fortunately fell in with her consort , the Dorothea , previous to entering the ap- pointed rendezvous at Magdalena Bay , on the 3d of June . This commodious inlet being the first port they had anchored at in the polar ...
... crews . The Trent fortunately fell in with her consort , the Dorothea , previous to entering the ap- pointed rendezvous at Magdalena Bay , on the 3d of June . This commodious inlet being the first port they had anchored at in the polar ...
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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