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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... - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though 30 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... - examine the margin of the ice . It blew fresh from the eastward during the night of the 28th , with continued rain , all which we considered favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though 30 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though very comfortless for Captain Lyon on his excursion . The weather at length clearing up in the afternoon , I determined on beating to the eastward , to see if any more of the land ...
... favourable for dissolving and dislodging the ice , though very comfortless for Captain Lyon on his excursion . The weather at length clearing up in the afternoon , I determined on beating to the eastward , to see if any more of the land ...
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... favourable for our seeing the land , the only advan- tage now to be derived from our visit , since the fish- ing place was not attainable , it was decided to pass the night on one of the rocky islands . The Esqui- maux having brought no ...
... favourable for our seeing the land , the only advan- tage now to be derived from our visit , since the fish- ing place was not attainable , it was decided to pass the night on one of the rocky islands . The Esqui- maux having brought no ...
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... favourable , but always without any sensible effect being produced on the gold leaf . The difference in the temperature of the day and night began to be sensible as early as the first week in March , and the daily range of the ...
... favourable , but always without any sensible effect being produced on the gold leaf . The difference in the temperature of the day and night began to be sensible as early as the first week in March , and the daily range of the ...
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... Favourable as the first part of the month of May had appeared with respect to temperature , its 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 ...
... Favourable as the first part of the month of May had appeared with respect to temperature , its 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 ...
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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