Round about the North PoleE.P. Dutton and Company, 1907 - 294 páginas History of Arctic exploration, organized regionally. |
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Arctic Circle August Baffin Baffin Bay Banks Barents bear Beechey Beechey Island began Bering Strait boats Boothia built canoes Cape Chelyuskin Captain Channel cliffs coast command crew crossed days afterwards Dease deer discovered discovery dogs drifted east eastward Edward Whymper endeavour Eskimos expedition exploration face Fiord fish floe Franklin Franz Josef Franz Josef Land Frobisher frozen further glacier Greenland Harbour Hecla Hudson Inlet Island July June Kane kayak Lake Lancaster Sound latitude Lieutenant longitude M'Clintock M'Clure Melville Muscovy Company named Nansen Nindemann Nordenskiöld North Pole north-east North-West Passage northern northward Novaya Zemlya owing pack Parry Parry's party passed Payer Point Prince reached reindeer Repulse Bay river Ross round Russian sailed says sent ship shore Siberia side sighted Simpson Simpson Strait skins snow Spitsbergen Sverdrup tent took vessel voyage westward whale Whymper Wilberforce Falls wind winter
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Página 202 - Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg fixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the other, with the purchase of a long lever advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile, those who happened to be below, finding everything falling, rushed or clambered on deck, where they saw the ship on her beam ends, with the lee boats touching the water, and felt that a few moments...
Página 202 - We had abundance of materials for building in the fragments of limestone that covered the beach, and we therefore erected a cairn of some magnitude, under which we buried a canister containing a record of the interesting fact, only regretting...
Página 39 - If ever the fortitude of seamen was fairly tried, it was assuredly not less so on this occasion ; and I will not conceal the pride I felt in witnessing the bold and decisive tone in which the orders were issued by the commander of our little vessel, and the promptitude and steadiness with which they were executed by the crew.
Página 161 - 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 201 - Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc. But nature had here erected no monument to denote the spot which she had chosen as the centre of one of her great and dark powers...
Página 208 - I have no temptation to do so, since it appears to me that your views are almost identical with those which I had independently formed before I had the advantage of being thoroughly possessed of yours. But had this been otherwise, I trust you would have found me ready to prove the implicit confidence I place in you by yielding my own...
Página 237 - We had completely sunk the strip of land which lies between the mer de glace and the sea; and no object met the eye but our feeble tent, which bent to the storm. Fitful clouds swept over the face of the fullorbed moon, which, descending...
Página 32 - ... or patches, occupying the various clefts and hollows in the sides of the hills, capping some of the mountain summits, and filling with extended beds the most considerable valleys; and ice of the glacier form, occurring at intervals all along the coast, in particular situations as already described, in prodigious accumulations. The glistening or vitreous appearance of the iceberg precipices ; the purity, whiteness, and beauty of the sloping expanse, formed by their snowy surfaces ; the gloomy...
Página 40 - ... which is common in all snowy countries. We also thus enjoyed greater warmth during the hours of rest, and had a better chance of drying our clothes ; besides which, no small advantage was derived from the snow being harder at night for travelling. The only disadvantage of this plan was, that the fogs were somewhat more frequent and more thick by night than by day, though even in this respect there was less difference than might have been supposed, the temperature during the twenty-four hours...
Página 232 - ... of the party, Kalutunah, was a noble savage, greatly superior in every thing to the others of his race. He greeted me with respectful courtesy, yet as one who might rightfully expect an equal measure of it in return^ and, after a short interchange of salutations, seated himself in the post of honor at my side. I waited of course till the company had fed and slept, for among savages especially haste is indecorous, and then, after distributing a few presents, opened to them my project of a northern...