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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... 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 by the breath of Heaven Cemented 32 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
... 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 by the breath of Heaven Cemented 32 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
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... months , continual night Holds o'er the glittering waste her starry light ; " by undergoing perils , and enduring privations and dangers which the mind , in its reflective moments , shudders to contemplate . It is fair to conjecture ...
... months , continual night Holds o'er the glittering waste her starry light ; " by undergoing perils , and enduring privations and dangers which the mind , in its reflective moments , shudders to contemplate . It is fair to conjecture ...
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... months at a time , exploring the bare rocks and everlasting ice , with no companion but the white bear or the Arctic fox , may be all very romantic at a distance ; but the mere thought of a winter residence there , frozen fast in some ...
... months at a time , exploring the bare rocks and everlasting ice , with no companion but the white bear or the Arctic fox , may be all very romantic at a distance ; but the mere thought of a winter residence there , frozen fast in some ...
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... a long winter of ten months at Fort Enterprise , depending upon the fish they could catch , and the suc- cess of their Indian hunters , for food . On the 6th of October , the officers quitted their 64 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
... a long winter of ten months at Fort Enterprise , depending upon the fish they could catch , and the suc- cess of their Indian hunters , for food . On the 6th of October , the officers quitted their 64 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
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... months they had respec- tively arrived at Fort Churchill . The former spoke English . They brought four dogs with them , which proved of great use during the season in drawing in wood for fuel . Mr. Back , at this time , the 24th of ...
... months they had respec- tively arrived at Fort Churchill . The former spoke English . They brought four dogs with them , which proved of great use during the season in drawing in wood for fuel . Mr. Back , at this time , the 24th of ...
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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