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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... probably this relation led to the sub- sequently formed hasty opinion of Captain Sir John Ross , as to his visionary Croker Mountains , of which I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . As early as the year 1527 , the idea of a ...
... probably this relation led to the sub- sequently formed hasty opinion of Captain Sir John Ross , as to his visionary Croker Mountains , of which I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . As early as the year 1527 , the idea of a ...
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... probably , to greater advantage than in those bold and persevering efforts to pierce through frozen seas , in their little slender barks , of the most miserable description , ill provided with the means either of comfort or safety ...
... probably , to greater advantage than in those bold and persevering efforts to pierce through frozen seas , in their little slender barks , of the most miserable description , ill provided with the means either of comfort or safety ...
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... probably have proved fatal to all on board , as it would have been next to impossible to rescue any person from the confused moving mass of brash ice which covered the sea in every direction . " The attention of the seamen was in some ...
... probably have proved fatal to all on board , as it would have been next to impossible to rescue any person from the confused moving mass of brash ice which covered the sea in every direction . " The attention of the seamen was in some ...
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... probably have been the wife of many more , if her mother had not required her services as a nurse . Mr. Hood took a good likeness of the young lady , but her mother was somewhat averse to her sitting for it , fearing that " her ...
... probably have been the wife of many more , if her mother had not required her services as a nurse . Mr. Hood took a good likeness of the young lady , but her mother was somewhat averse to her sitting for it , fearing that " her ...
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... bunting , geese , and ducks , were noticed , probably commencing their migration to a milder climate . Along the beach there was an im- mense number of small shrimps , and various kinds of 88 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
... bunting , geese , and ducks , were noticed , probably commencing their migration to a milder climate . Along the beach there was an im- mense number of small shrimps , and various kinds of 88 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
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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