Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851 ...: Under the Command of Mr. William Penney, in Search of the Missing Crews of H. M. Ships, Erebus and Terror ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 506 páginas |
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abundant advance animals appeared Arctic astern barometer Barrow Straits Beechey Island Berry Island beset boat breeze Cape Farewell Cape York Captain Austin Captain Austin's squadron Captain Penny cast loose CHAP clear close coast command crews danger Davis Strait direction discovered distance dogs drifting ice ducks eastward edge eider-ducks eight endeavoured Entomostraca Esquimaux Expedition fathoms favourable feet fixed ice gale glacier Greenland Hare Island hundred icebergs inch Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound land ice large floes latitude little auk loons loose ice Melville Bay miles missing ships morning narwhal noon North-east Bay northerly northward o'clock observed open water overcast pack passed Petersen pressure rapid rocks sail Saunderson's Hope seal season seemed seen settlement shore side sledge snow soon Sophia southerly wind southward surface temperature thick tide towing Uppernavik weather Wellington Channel westward whalers white whale whole winter young ice
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