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, Volumen2Harper, 1843 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 52
Página 65
... close of the year 1822. - Sickness among the Es- quimaux . - Meteorological Phenomena to the end of March . November .-- THE measures now adpoted for the security of the ships and their stores , for the main- tenance of economy ...
... close of the year 1822. - Sickness among the Es- quimaux . - Meteorological Phenomena to the end of March . November .-- THE measures now adpoted for the security of the ships and their stores , for the main- tenance of economy ...
Página 66
... close of the year from fifty to sixty individuals had thus decamped , their object being , like that of other savages on terra firma , to increase their means of subsistence by covering more ground ; their movements were arranged so ...
... close of the year from fifty to sixty individuals had thus decamped , their object being , like that of other savages on terra firma , to increase their means of subsistence by covering more ground ; their movements were arranged so ...
Página 78
... close of the month of March , we were glad to find that its mean temperature , being -19 . 75 ° , when taken in conjunction with those of Janu- ary and February , appeared to constitute a mild winter for this latitude . There were ...
... close of the month of March , we were glad to find that its mean temperature , being -19 . 75 ° , when taken in conjunction with those of Janu- ary and February , appeared to constitute a mild winter for this latitude . There were ...
Página 83
... close was by no means equally promising , and on the first of June , at two A.M. , the thermometer stood at + 8 ° . This unusually low temperature , much exceeding in severity anything we had experienced at Melville Island at the same ...
... close was by no means equally promising , and on the first of June , at two A.M. , the thermometer stood at + 8 ° . This unusually low temperature , much exceeding in severity anything we had experienced at Melville Island at the same ...
Página 86
... close , but not too tightly , round the eyes for a whole night , to be a more ef- fectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater ; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment , derived ...
... close , but not too tightly , round the eyes for a whole night , to be a more ef- fectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater ; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment , derived ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
animals appeared arrived beach board the Fury boats bone breeze canoes Captain Hoppner Captain Lyon circumstance clear close clothes coast Cockburn Island considerable continued course direction distance dogs dovekies drift eastward eight Esquimaux extreme farther fathoms favourable feet five floe four fresh Fury's gale Greenland half past halted Hammerfest hauled Hecla huts Igloolik inches inlet journey Kabloonas kind labour land latitude length Lieutenant longitude by chronometers loose ice manner miles morning night noon northward NORTHWEST PASSAGE observed occasion officers open water party pemmican piece provisions quantity quarter reindeer remarkable rest round sail scarcely seahorse season secured seven P.M. ships shore side six A.M. skin sledge snow soon southward Spitzbergen strait Table Island tent thick tion Toolemak travelling usual walrus ward weather westward whale whole wind Winter Island winter passed women yards