Arctic Heroes: Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations from the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John FranklinNelson & Phillips, 1875 - 304 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Akaitcho ashore Baffin Bay Barrow Strait bear Beechey Island berg Bering Strait boat cabin canoes Cape Captain Penny Captain Ross coast cold command crew darkness Davis Strait deck distance drifting England Enterprise Esquimo expedition explorers feet fire Fish River floes four foxes Frobisher Fury gave Greenland Griffith Island Hecla Hudson hummocks icebergs Indians Intrepid Kane Kellett Lancaster Sound land Large 16mo Lieutenant M'Clintock M'Clure Melville Bay Melville Island mouth natives navigation night north-west passage officers Parry passed Penny's peril polar Prince Regent Inlet provisions pushed reached Regent Inlet regions Rescue rushed sailed sailors seemed seen sent ship shore shot shouted side sight Slave Lake snow soon Spitzbergen squadron steam story supply tion turned vessel voyage Wellington Channel whale wind winter-quarters
Pasajes populares
Página 181 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Página 210 - Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Página 300 - 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 30 - The loathsome \ iew of the shore and irksome noise of the ice was such that it bred strange conceits among us, so that we supposed the place to be waste and void of any sensible or vegetable creatures.
Página 156 - All, everything too, was to be done at once : it was washing, dressing, shaving, eating, all intermingled : it was all the materials of each jumbled together, while in the midst of all there were interminable questions to be asked and answered on both sides ; the adventures of the " Victory," our own escapes, the politics of England, and the news which was now four years old.
Página 82 - They are so numerous that we have frequently seen an uninterrupted line of them extending full half way over the bay, or to a distance of more than three miles, and so close together that thirty have fallen at one shot. This living column, on an average, might have been about six yards broad, and as many deep ; so that, allowing sixteen birds to a cubic yard, there must have been nearly four millions of birds on the wing at one time.
Página 206 - Erebus ;' died January 4th, 1846, aged 25 years. " ' Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways.' — Haggai i. 7." I thought I traced in the epitaphs over the graves of the men from the " Erebus," the manly and Christian spirit of Franklin. In the true spirit of chivalry, he, their captain and leader, led them amidst dangers and unknown difficulties with iron will stamped upon his brow, but the words of meekness...
Página 283 - The announcement of relief being close at hand, when none was supposed to be even within the Arctic Circle, was too sudden, unexpected, and joyous for our minds to comprehend it at once.
Página 163 - ... at every undefended part, and fixed their poisonous fangs in an instant. Our faces streamed with blood, as if leeches had been applied, and there was a burning and irritating pain, followed by immediate inflammation, and producing giddiness, which almost drove us...
Página 76 - ... animals of various kinds would frequently rise and sport about in them, or crawl from thence upon the ice to bask in the warmth of the sun. A walrus rose in one of these pools close to the ship, and finding everything quiet, dived down and brought up its young, which it held to its breast by pressing it with its flipper.