The Heroes of the Arctic and Their AdventuresSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889 - 336 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
adventures afterwards America Arctic Expedition attempt Baffin Barents bear Bellot Bering's Straits boats brave brig broken Cape Captain Nares coast of Greenland cold command crew despatched discovered discovery distance dogs drifting east England Esquimaux feet floe Franklin frozen gale glacier Greenland harbour Hayes headland hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hummocks hundred icebergs Island journey Kane Kane's Lancaster Sound Lancaster Strait land latitude Lieutenant M'Clintock Marble Island Markham mass Melville Bay merchants miles narrative natives navigator nearly Newfoundland North Pole north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla officers Ohlsen open water party passed pemmican Polar proceeded provisions reached regions reindeer returned river rocks sailed sailors says scurvy sent ship shore Sir John sledge Smith Sound snow Spitzbergen storm tent tion travelled Upernavik vessel voyage walrus Wellington Channel wind winter wrecked
Pasajes populares
Página 136 - W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77°, and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consisting of 2 officers and 6 men left the ships on Monday 24th May, 1847.
Página 110 - It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets, in a short time became a solid mass of ice, and by a blow or two of the hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation.
Página 161 - But, as we traced it on to the deep snow among the hummocks, we were led to footsteps, and, following these with religious care, we at last came in sight of a small American flag fluttering from a hummock, and lower down a little Masonic banner hanging from a tent-pole hardly above the drift It was the camp of our disabled comrades. We reached it after an unbroken march of twenty-one hours.
Página 21 - ... before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 89 - 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 137 - 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 172 - Yet there was something of the gourmet in their mode of assorting their mouthfuls of beef and blubber. 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...
Página 150 - ... 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 89 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all the hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger ; yet I did not believe it to be possible, that, amongst fortyone persons, not one repining word should have been uttered.
Página 168 - I soon came to an understanding with this gallant diplomatist. Almost as soon as we commenced our parley, his companions, probably receiving signals from him, flocked in and surrounded us; but we had no difficulty in making them know positively that they must remain where they were, while Metek went with me on board the ship.