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... England derive their descent from , and now represent - in the male or female line - the eminent and illus- trious men whose memoirs will be contained in this work , to whom , in a great measure , Britain owes its liberty , and ...
... England derive their descent from , and now represent - in the male or female line - the eminent and illus- trious men whose memoirs will be contained in this work , to whom , in a great measure , Britain owes its liberty , and ...
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... " the only great thing left undone in the world , " and which has ever since baffled all attempts at solution , though pursued with unceasing zeal . To these barren solitudes the attention , not only of England , but of the whole world ,
... " the only great thing left undone in the world , " and which has ever since baffled all attempts at solution , though pursued with unceasing zeal . To these barren solitudes the attention , not only of England , but of the whole world ,
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... England owes to the brave men she has sent on a perilous service to use every practical endeavour within her for their relief . How power many , whose names never meet the world's ear , whose tears are unseen by the world's eye , watch ...
... England owes to the brave men she has sent on a perilous service to use every practical endeavour within her for their relief . How power many , whose names never meet the world's ear , whose tears are unseen by the world's eye , watch ...
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... England - Sent out by Henry VIII . to Extend his Discoveries , under Sir T. Pert -Disappointed through the Mutiny of his Crew , and Pusillanimity of their Commander - France enters the field of Arctic Discovery - Spain pursues the same ...
... England - Sent out by Henry VIII . to Extend his Discoveries , under Sir T. Pert -Disappointed through the Mutiny of his Crew , and Pusillanimity of their Commander - France enters the field of Arctic Discovery - Spain pursues the same ...
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... England - Favourable Reception by Edward VI . - New Expedition framed by Cabot , under the King's sanction , commanded by Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancelor - Willoughby's Melancholy End- Chancelor penetrates to Moscow - Embassy ...
... England - Favourable Reception by Edward VI . - New Expedition framed by Cabot , under the King's sanction , commanded by Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancelor - Willoughby's Melancholy End- Chancelor penetrates to Moscow - Embassy ...
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A Narrative of Arctic Discovery: From the Earliest Period to the Present ... John Joseph Shillinglaw Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
A Narrative of Arctic Discovery: From the Earliest Period to the Present ... John Joseph Shillinglaw Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
Términos y frases comunes
Admiralty anchor appeared Arctic arrived Assistant Surgeon attempt August Baffin Baffin's Bay baidars Barentsz Barrow Beechey Behring's Straits boats Cabot canoe Cape Cape Walker Captain Back Captain Franklin Captain Parry Captain Ross Coppermine course crew danger despatched direction discovered discovery ditto endeavour England Enterprise entrance Esquimaux expedition explore floe Greenland Hakluyt harbour Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians Inlet Island James James Clark Ross journey July June Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude length Lieutenant longitude Mackenzie Melville Island miles mouth Muscovy Company natives navigation north-west northern northward Nova Zembla numerous observed officers party passage passed pemmican Plover Polar Sea proceeded provisions reached Repulse Bay Richardson river sailed Sebastian Cabot seen sent September ships shore Sir Edward Parry Sir John Franklin snow southward Spitzbergen stood tion tons vessel voyage weather western westward whales wind winter
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Página 44 - Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Página 12 - ... before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 233 - Victory," our own escapes, the politics of England, and the news which was now four years old. But all subsided into peace at last. The sick were accommodated, the seamen disposed of, and all was done for us which care and kindness could perform.
Página 41 - Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head...
Página 293 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admir•alty, that at 5 o'clock pm on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Página 249 - Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 1 1' 00'i N., and longitude 94° 30' 0
Página 218 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all 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 forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.
Página 39 - He knew all the harbours and ports, both of his own dominions, and of France and Scotland ; and how much water they had, and what was the way of coming into them.
Página 182 - November, to the great delight of the ships' companies. In these amusements I gladly undertook a part myself, considering that an example of cheerfulness, by giving a direct countenance to everything that could contribute to it, was not the least essential part of my duty, under the peculiar circumstances in which we were placed.
Página 168 - These could not have offered any impediment.* About midnight of the 19th, Sir Thomas Smith's Sound of 'Baffin ' was distinctly seen,' and the two capes forming its entrance were named after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. ' I considered (says Captain Ross) the bottom of this sound to be about eighteen leagues distant, but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice.