The Heroes of the Arctic and Their AdventuresSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1875 - 302 páginas |
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... interest is felt in the Polar Expeditions which have just left our shores , for the publication of the present work . The writer has endeavoured to indicate clearly the salient points in the lives of our Arctic Heroes , while in briefer ...
... interest is felt in the Polar Expeditions which have just left our shores , for the publication of the present work . The writer has endeavoured to indicate clearly the salient points in the lives of our Arctic Heroes , while in briefer ...
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... interest was felt in these northern expeditions at that time may be inferred from the voyages of the Trinitie and Minion , in 1536 , in which Master Hore of London was accompanied by many gentlemen from the Inns of Court and of Chancery ...
... interest was felt in these northern expeditions at that time may be inferred from the voyages of the Trinitie and Minion , in 1536 , in which Master Hore of London was accompanied by many gentlemen from the Inns of Court and of Chancery ...
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... interest in these voyages , which resulted in a more complete knowledge of the Greenland coasts , straits , and islands . Frobisher brought home from his first voyage some black stone which was supposed to have contained gold , and it ...
... interest in these voyages , which resulted in a more complete knowledge of the Greenland coasts , straits , and islands . Frobisher brought home from his first voyage some black stone which was supposed to have contained gold , and it ...
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... interest attaches to it from the recent discovery by Captain Carlsen , whilst circum- BARENTS ' HOUSE . navigating Nova Zembla , of the very house built by this navigator , with many relics of the expedi- tion . " No man had entered the ...
... interest attaches to it from the recent discovery by Captain Carlsen , whilst circum- BARENTS ' HOUSE . navigating Nova Zembla , of the very house built by this navigator , with many relics of the expedi- tion . " No man had entered the ...
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... interest is centred at the present time ( 1875 ) . The expedition which has just left our shores is under orders to proceed vid that Sound , the southern entrance to which has been found by many vessels since 1852 free from ice during ...
... interest is centred at the present time ( 1875 ) . The expedition which has just left our shores is under orders to proceed vid that Sound , the southern entrance to which has been found by many vessels since 1852 free from ice during ...
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adventures afterwards America Arctic attempt Baffin Barents bear Beechey Island Bering's Straits boats brave brig Cape Capt Captain Captain Crozier CHAPTER coast of Greenland cold command crew despatched discovered discovery distance dogs drifting east England Erebus Esquimaux expedition exploration feet floe frozen gale glacier Hansa harbour Hayes Heroes hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hummocks hundred iceberg Island Ispravnik journey Kane Kane's Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound Lancaster Strait land latitude Lieutenant M'Clintock miles narrative natives navigators nearly North Pole north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla officers open water Parry party passed pemmican Polar provisions reached regions reindeer relics River rocks route sailed sailor says scurvy ship shore Sir John sledge Smith Sound snow Spitzbergen tent tion travelled vessel voyage walrus Wellington Channel whale wind winter wreck Yukon River
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Página 7 - ... before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 75 - The officers each secured some useful instrument about them for the purposes of observation, although it was acknowledged by all that not the slightest hope remained. And now that every thing in our power had been done, I called all hands aft, and to a merciful God offered prayers for .our preservation. I...
Página 125 - September, 1846. The officers and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain FRM Crozier, landed here in lat. 69° 37' 42
Página 49 - After continuing there a considerable time together, and nothing appearing in sight, they sat down close together and wept bitterly. At length one of the two died, and the other's strength was so far exhausted that he fell down and died also in attempting to dig a grave for his companion. The skulls and other large bones of these two men are now lying above ground close to the house. The longest liver was, according to the Esquimaux account, always employed in working iron into implements for them...
Página 158 - Slices of each, or rather strips, passed between the lips, either together or in strict alternation, and with a regularity of sequence that kept the molars well to their work. " They did not eat all at once, but each man when and as often as the impulse prompted. Each slept after eating, his raw chunk lying beside him on the buffaloskin ; and, as he woke, the first act was to eat, and the next to sleep again. They did not lie down, but slumbered away in a sitting posture, with the head declined upon...
Página 136 - ... we lost our headway. Almost at the same moment, we saw that the bergs were not at rest ; that with a momentum of their own they were bearing down upon the other ice, and that it must be our fate to be crushed between the two. "Just then, a broad sconce-piece or low water-washed berg came driving up from the southward.
Página 166 - An open sea near the Pole, or even an open polar basin, has been a topic for theory for a long time, and has been shadowed forth to some extent by actual or supposed discoveries. As far back as the days of Barentz, in 1596, without referring to the earlier and more uncertain chronicles, water was seen to the eastward of the northernmost Cape of...
Página 80 - This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that it was difficult to persuade ourselves of the reality. Even the officers and myself, who were all furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men who declared, and I believe truly, that they never knew night from day during the whole excursion...
Página 80 - ... which is common in all snowy countries. We also thus enjoyed greater warmth during the hours of rest, and had a better chance of drying our clothes ; besides which, no small advantage was derived from the snow being harder at night for travelling. The only disadvantage of this plan was, that the fogs were somewhat more frequent and more thick by night than by day, though even in this respect, there was less difference than might have been supposed, the temperature during the twenty-four hours...
Página 181 - The seal rose on his fore flippers, gazed at us for a moment with frightened curiosity, and coiled himself for a plunge. At that instant, simultaneously with the crack of our rifle, he relaxed his long length on the ice, and, at the very brink of the water, his head fell helpless to one side.