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 |
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... dogs were large , fine - looking animals , and an old one of pecu- liar sagacity was placed at their head by having a longer trace , so as to lead them over the safest and driest places , for these animals have a great dread of water ...
... dogs were large , fine - looking animals , and an old one of pecu- liar sagacity was placed at their head by having a longer trace , so as to lead them over the safest and driest places , for these animals have a great dread of water ...
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... dog which slept with me , ran and threw him as a present into the boat ; when , after a general koo- nik , we pushed off , fully sensible of the kind hos . pitality we had received . Toolemak and Ooyar . ra came on board in my boat , in ...
... dog which slept with me , ran and threw him as a present into the boat ; when , after a general koo- nik , we pushed off , fully sensible of the kind hos . pitality we had received . Toolemak and Ooyar . ra came on board in my boat , in ...
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... dogs removed the snow and devoured the body . Captain Lyon gave me the following account of the death and burial of another poor woman and her child : " The mother , Poo - too - alook , was about thirty- five the child about three years ...
... dogs removed the snow and devoured the body . Captain Lyon gave me the following account of the death and burial of another poor woman and her child : " The mother , Poo - too - alook , was about thirty- five the child about three years ...
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... dogs ; for , to our horror , Takkeelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keimoo . seuk , and that , when he left the huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he passed it . " Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to dress the ...
... dogs ; for , to our horror , Takkeelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keimoo . seuk , and that , when he left the huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he passed it . " Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to dress the ...
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... dogs being carefully tied up at the man's request , a party of our people , ac . companied by me , drew the body to the shore , where we made a grave , about a foot deep , being unable to get lower on account of the frozen earth . The ...
... dogs being carefully tied up at the man's request , a party of our people , ac . companied by me , drew the body to the shore , where we made a grave , about a foot deep , being unable to get lower on account of the frozen earth . The ...
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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