A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-east, North-west, Or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific : from the Earliest Periods of Scandinavian Navigation to the Departure of the Recent Expeditions Under the Orders of Captains Ross and BuchanJohn Murray, 1818 - 427 páginas |
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... mouth of the Rhone , from whence they wasted Provence and Dauphiny , as far as Va- lence . In short , they ruined France , levied im- mense tribute on its monarchs , burnt the palace of Charlemagne at Aix - la - Chapelle , and , in con ...
... mouth of the Rhone , from whence they wasted Provence and Dauphiny , as far as Va- lence . In short , they ruined France , levied im- mense tribute on its monarchs , burnt the palace of Charlemagne at Aix - la - Chapelle , and , in con ...
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... mouth of the river St. Lawrence . It is now known that vines grow wild in various parts of Canada , some of them pleasant to the taste and agreeable to the eye , such as the vitis labrusca , vulpina , and arborea ; * but whether any ...
... mouth of the river St. Lawrence . It is now known that vines grow wild in various parts of Canada , some of them pleasant to the taste and agreeable to the eye , such as the vitis labrusca , vulpina , and arborea ; * but whether any ...
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... mouth . " The letters containing the curious and interest- ing narrative of the adventures and discoveries of the two Zenos were written by Antonio to his brother Carlo ; " and it grieveth me , " says the narrator , " that the book and ...
... mouth . " The letters containing the curious and interest- ing narrative of the adventures and discoveries of the two Zenos were written by Antonio to his brother Carlo ; " and it grieveth me , " says the narrator , " that the book and ...
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... mouth of this river could not have escaped examination . Independent however of this general reasoning , the evidence furnished by Ramusio is decisive . In describing the prin- cipal places on that coast , he says that beyond Cabo do ...
... mouth of this river could not have escaped examination . Independent however of this general reasoning , the evidence furnished by Ramusio is decisive . In describing the prin- cipal places on that coast , he says that beyond Cabo do ...
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... mouth of Hud- son's Straits , he places a little islet under the namė of Caramilo - from which it may almost be con- cluded that the Portugueze had been here also , as this name is only a mis - spelling of the Por- tugueze word Caramelo ...
... mouth of Hud- son's Straits , he places a little islet under the namė of Caramilo - from which it may almost be con- cluded that the Portugueze had been here also , as this name is only a mis - spelling of the Por- tugueze word Caramelo ...
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Página 312 - An Act for giving a public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea . within One Degree of the Northern Pole...
Página 213 - ... of the world known; for by divers good observations I found it to be above five points, or fifty-six degrees varied to the westward.
Página 132 - ... and very much broader sea than was at the said entrance, and that he passed by divers islands in that sailing; and that at the entrance of this said strait, there is, on the northwest coast thereof, a great headland or island, with an exceeding high pinnacle, or spired rock, like a pillar thereupon.
Página 59 - And thus much (by reason of the great negligence of the writers of those times, who should have used more care in preserving of the memories of the worthy actes of our nation,) is all that hitherto I can learne, or finde out of this voyage.
Página 90 - I carried away from hence the last year is dead in England. Moreover, you may declare unto them, that if they deliver you not, I will not leave a man alive in their country.
Página 153 - Countrey, and amongst our friends, it comforted us as well as if we had made a great banquet in our owne house...
Página 297 - ... either all feasting, or all famine ; sometimes we had too much, seldom just enough, frequently too little, and often none at all. It will be only necessary to say that we have fasted many times two whole days and nights ; twice upwards of three days ; and once, while at She-than-nee, near seven days, during which we tasted not a mouthful of anything, except a few cranberries, water, scraps of old leather, and burnt bones.
Página 35 - These were clothed in beasts skins, & did eate raw flesh, and spake such speach that no man could understand them, and in their demeanour like to bruite beastes, whom the King kept a time after.
Página 276 - A sickness and famine occasioned such havock among the English that, by the setting in of the second winter, their number was reduced to twenty. That winter, 1720, some of the Esquimaux took up their abode on the opposite side of the harbour to that on which the English had built their houses, and frequently supplied them with such provisions as they had, which chiefly consisted of whale's blubber, and seal's flesh, and train oil.
Página 263 - ... in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their ship went not out to fish that summer, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market. But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland Company, sailed unto...