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 ...Murray, 1818 - 427 páginas |
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... nearly as large as Iceland , and more fertile , the people ingenious and skilled as artisans ; that the prince had Latin books , but did not understand them ; that they had gold and all manner of metals ; that they raised corn , made ...
... nearly as large as Iceland , and more fertile , the people ingenious and skilled as artisans ; that the prince had Latin books , but did not understand them ; that they had gold and all manner of metals ; that they raised corn , made ...
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... nearly with the modern names of those islands . ‡ Forster has tried the same thing , and finds a cor- responding island for every name mentioned in the narrative of the two Zenos . He has also dis- covered that one Henry Sinclair was ...
... nearly with the modern names of those islands . ‡ Forster has tried the same thing , and finds a cor- responding island for every name mentioned in the narrative of the two Zenos . He has also dis- covered that one Henry Sinclair was ...
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... nearly a year in this voyage , he had discovered , between west and northwest , a con- tinent until then unknown to the rest of the world ; that he had run along the coast upwards of eight hundred miles ; that according to his con ...
... nearly a year in this voyage , he had discovered , between west and northwest , a con- tinent until then unknown to the rest of the world ; that he had run along the coast upwards of eight hundred miles ; that according to his con ...
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... nearly in the middle of it , a river which he calls Rio da Tormenta , ( Storm River , ) to which succeeds another bay called Bahia das Medas ( Rick Bay . ) It does not how- ever follow that , because all these names are Por- tugueze ...
... nearly in the middle of it , a river which he calls Rio da Tormenta , ( Storm River , ) to which succeeds another bay called Bahia das Medas ( Rick Bay . ) It does not how- ever follow that , because all these names are Por- tugueze ...
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... nearly choaked with sand and mud , and can no longer receive vessels of burthen . The family of Cortereal has long been extinct , but it was for many years one of the most distin- guished in Portugal . The family name was ori- ginally ...
... nearly choaked with sand and mud , and can no longer receive vessels of burthen . The family of Cortereal has long been extinct , but it was for many years one of the most distin- guished in Portugal . The family name was ori- ginally ...
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appeared arrived attempt August Baffin Barentz boat called Cape Farewell Captain Cherry Island coast of America coast of Greenland cold command Company continued Cortereal covered crew degrees discovered discovery distance Dobbs Dutch east eastward England English enterprize expedition farther fell fish Frisland frozen gave the name Greenland Hakluyt harbour hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Hugh Willoughby hundred Iceland Indians inlet July June King land latitude leagues Lieutenant longitude masses of ice master miles mountains mouth natives navigation Newfoundland night North Pole north-east north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla observed passed pilot pinnace Portugueze proceeded Purchas reached river Samuel Hearne says set sail ships shore side sledges Snæfell snow Sound southward Spain Spitzbergen stood strait supposed Thomas Button tide tons vessels voyage ward weather westward whales wigwams William Baffin wind winter Zichmni
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Página 103 - Besides, for solace of our people, and allurement of the savages, we were provided of music in good variety; not omitting the least toys, as morrisdancers, hobby-horse, and May-like conceits to delight the savage people, whom we intended to win by all fair means possible.
Página 314 - 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 215 - ... 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 134 - ... 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 92 - 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 155 - ... in wine : and so supposing that we were in our owne country and amongst our friends, it comforted us as well as if we had made a great banket in our owne house...
Página 299 - ... 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 120 - ... of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best course to retourne with notice of our good successe for this small time of search. And so retourning in a sharpe fret of Westerly windes the 29- of September we arived at Dartmouth.