Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen1Harper, 1855 |
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... Weather . - House rebuilt . - Quantity of Ice col- lected on the Hecla's lower Deck . - Meterological Phenome- na . Conclusion of Theatrical Entertainments . - Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open ...
... Weather . - House rebuilt . - Quantity of Ice col- lected on the Hecla's lower Deck . - Meterological Phenome- na . Conclusion of Theatrical Entertainments . - Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open ...
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... Weather du- ring the Month of July . - Breaking up of the Ice near the Ships . Move to the lower part of the Harbour . - Separation of the Ice at the Entrance . - Prepare to Sail . - Abstract of Observations made in Winter Harbour ...
... Weather du- ring the Month of July . - Breaking up of the Ice near the Ships . Move to the lower part of the Harbour . - Separation of the Ice at the Entrance . - Prepare to Sail . - Abstract of Observations made in Winter Harbour ...
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... weather being nearly calm on the morning of the 25th , all the boats were kept ahead , to tow the ships through the ice to the westward . It re- mained tolerably open till four P.M. , when a breeze , freshening up from the eastward ...
... weather being nearly calm on the morning of the 25th , all the boats were kept ahead , to tow the ships through the ice to the westward . It re- mained tolerably open till four P.M. , when a breeze , freshening up from the eastward ...
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... weather , which made our situation for some hours rather an unpleasant one , the ice being close under our lee . Fortunately , however , we weathered it by stretching back a few miles to the southward . In the afternoon the wind ...
... weather , which made our situation for some hours rather an unpleasant one , the ice being close under our lee . Fortunately , however , we weathered it by stretching back a few miles to the southward . In the afternoon the wind ...
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... weather was too thick to allow us to see more than a mile or two in that direction . We were , at noon , in latitude 72 ° 00 ′ 21 ′′ , longitude 59 ° 43 ′ 04 ′′ , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy ...
... weather was too thick to allow us to see more than a mile or two in that direction . We were , at noon , in latitude 72 ° 00 ′ 21 ′′ , longitude 59 ° 43 ′ 04 ′′ , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared beach began boat breeze cabin canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast continued course deck direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Gore Bay Greenland Griper ground half past heavy Hecla hill hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet island Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying masses of ice Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward NORTHWEST PASSAGE o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party passage pieces Possession Bay present quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay sail scarcely seal seen ships shore side situation sledge snow soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion to-day usual walked ward weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island