A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-east, North-west, Or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific : from the Earliest Periods of Scandinavian Navigation to the Departure of the Recent Expeditions Under the Orders of Captains Ross and BuchanJohn Murray, 1818 - 427 páginas |
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... distances is in German leagues , fifteen to the degree , and not in the Spanish league of 174 to a degree . As this " Relation " is at any rate a curi- ous document , and has never appeared in the English language , a translation from a ...
... distances is in German leagues , fifteen to the degree , and not in the Spanish league of 174 to a degree . As this " Relation " is at any rate a curi- ous document , and has never appeared in the English language , a translation from a ...
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... distance , a sufficient quantity of drift- wood , not only to build them a capacious house , but also to serve them for fuel . The party , thus doomed to the melancholy fate which awaited them , amounted to seventeen persons , of whom ...
... distance , a sufficient quantity of drift- wood , not only to build them a capacious house , but also to serve them for fuel . The party , thus doomed to the melancholy fate which awaited them , amounted to seventeen persons , of whom ...
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... distance over ice and snow , and sometimes in such dark and piercing weather as to take the skin off their hands and faces . They once had recourse to the coals on board the vessel , but the fire made L 4 1596 . 151 WILLIAM BARENTZ .
... distance over ice and snow , and sometimes in such dark and piercing weather as to take the skin off their hands and faces . They once had recourse to the coals on board the vessel , but the fire made L 4 1596 . 151 WILLIAM BARENTZ .
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... distance from this parallel , some- where between Cherry Island and Nova Zembla ; but even now , with all the modern improvements which philosophical instruments have undergone , very little dependence can be placed on observa- tions ...
... distance from this parallel , some- where between Cherry Island and Nova Zembla ; but even now , with all the modern improvements which philosophical instruments have undergone , very little dependence can be placed on observa- tions ...
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... distance , nor variation of the compass , except once , and no one longitude whatever ; so vague and indefinite indeed is every information left , which could be useful , that each succeeding geographer has drawn " Baffin's Bay " on his ...
... distance , nor variation of the compass , except once , and no one longitude whatever ; so vague and indefinite indeed is every information left , which could be useful , that each succeeding geographer has drawn " Baffin's Bay " on his ...
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appeared arrived attempt August Baffin Barentz boat called Cape Farewell Captain coast of America coast of Greenland cold command Company continued Cortereal covered crew discovered discovery distance ducats Dutch east eastward England enterprize expedition farther fell fish Frisland frozen gave the name Greenland Hakluyt Hans Egede harbour hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Hugh Willoughby hundred Iceland Indians inlet island July June King Labrador land latitude leagues Lieutenant longitude masses of ice master miles mountains mouth natives navigation Newfoundland night North Pole north-east north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla observed passed pilot pinnace Portugueze proceeded Purchas reached river says set sail ships shore side sledges snow Sound South Sea southward Spain Spitzbergen stood Strait of Anian supposed Thomas Button tide tons vessels voyage ward weather westward whales wigwams William Baffin wind winter Zichmni
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Página 99 - Besides, for solace of our people, and allurement of the savages, we were provided of music in good variety; not omitting the least toys, as morrisdancers, hobby-horse, and May-like conceits to delight the savage people, whom we intended to win by all fair means possible.
Página 308 - An Act for giving a public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea . within One Degree of the Northern Pole...
Página 314 - At ten at night the weather becoming clear, we had an opportunity of seeing at the same moment the remarkable peaked hill near Cape Prince of Wales, on the coast of America, and the east Cape of Asia, with the two connecting islands of Saint Diomede between them.
Página 293 - ... either all feasting, or all famine ; sometimes we had too much, seldom just enough, frequently too little, and often none at all. It will be only necessary to say that we have fasted many times two whole days and nights ; twice upwards of three days ; and once, while at She-than-nee, near seven days, during which we tasted not a mouthful of anything, except a few cranberries, water, scraps of old leather, and burnt bones.
Página 237 - Majesties of 40 pieces ordnance hee could not strike his flagg; (keepe it up then, quoth I) but you are out of the way to Japon, for this is not it ;" — and a great deal more of such stuff.
Página 259 - ... in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their ship went not out to fish that summer, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market. But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland Company, sailed unto...
Página 31 - ... before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 316 - Clerke's resolutions were made known. We were all heartily sick of a navigation full of danger, and in which the utmost perseverance had not been repaid with the smallest probability of success. We therefore turned our faces toward home, after an absence of three years, with a delight and satisfaction, which, notwithstanding the tedious voyage we had still to make, and the immense distance we had to run, were as freely entertained, and perhaps as fully enjoyed, as if we had been already in sight...
Página 272 - A sickness and famine occasioned such havock among the English that, by the setting in of the second winter, their number was reduced to twenty. That winter, 1720, some of the Esquimaux took up their abode on the opposite side of the harbour to that on which the English had built their houses, and frequently supplied them with such provisions as they had, which chiefly consisted of whale's blubber, and seal's flesh, and train oil.
Página 57 - ONE master Hore of London, a man of goodly stature and of great courage, and given to the studie of Cosmographie...