Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen4

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John Murray, 1835
 

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Página 101 - immediately to repair to this Office, in order to lay before us a full account of your proceedings, taking care, before you leave the ship, to demand from the several officers, petty officers, and all other persons on board, the Logs and
Página 39 - well be imagined. In the few opportunities we had of putting their hospitality to the test, we had every reason to be pleased with them. Both as to food and accommodation the best they had was always at our service; and their attention, both in kind and degree, was
Página 168 - feet above the sea), in order to obtain a better view around us ; and nothing could well exceed the dreariness which such a view presented. The eye wearied itself in vain to find an object but ice and sky to rest upon ; and even the latter was often hidden from our view by the dense and
Página 207 - so that, since our last observation (at midnight on the 22d), we had lost by drift no less than thirteen miles and a half; for we were now more than three miles to the southward of that observation, though we had certainly travelled between ten and eleven due north in this interval! Again, we were but one
Página 159 - After we had slept seven hours, the man appointed to boil the cocoa roused us, when it was ready, by the sound of a bugle, when we commenced our day in the manner before described. Our allowance of provisions for each man per day was as follows :— Biscuit 10 ounces.
Página 87 - Viscount Melville, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, to attempt to reach the North Pole, by means of travelling with sledge-boats over the ice, or through any spaces of open water that might occur. My proposal was soon
Página 108 - skin round his neck, a single trace of the same material attached to the " pulk," or sledge, and passing between his legs, and one rein fastened like a halter about his neck, this intelligent and docile animal is perfectly under command of an experienced driver, and performs astonishing journeys over the softest
Página 88 - a field that was so free from either fissure or hummock, that I imagine, had it been free from snow, a coach might have been driven many leagues over it in a direct line, without obstruction or danger.
Página 156 - Had we succeeded in reaching the higher latitudes, where the change of the sun's altitude during the twentyfour hours is still less perceptible, it would have been essentially necessary to possess the certain means of knowing this: since an error of twelve hours of time would have carried
Página 210 - sincerely as we regretted not having been able to hoist the British flag in the highest latitude to which we had aspired, we shall perhaps be excused in having felt some little pride in being the bearers of it to a parallel considerably beyond that mentioned in any other

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