Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen2Harper, 1858 |
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... feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet and a half in length , occupied most of the afternoon , each ship taking half the blubber and hauling it on the ice ...
... feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet and a half in length , occupied most of the afternoon , each ship taking half the blubber and hauling it on the ice ...
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... seen since making Iglooik ; some of the hummocks , as we afterward found , measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea . The different character now assumed by the ice , while OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 47.
... seen since making Iglooik ; some of the hummocks , as we afterward found , measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea . The different character now assumed by the ice , while OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 47.
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... feet in length , and . from four to five feet high , neatly constructed of large flat slabs of ice , cemented together by snow and water . Some huts also were entirely built of this material , of a rude circular or octangular form , and ...
... feet in length , and . from four to five feet high , neatly constructed of large flat slabs of ice , cemented together by snow and water . Some huts also were entirely built of this material , of a rude circular or octangular form , and ...
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... feet ; the thickness of the ice , in the level and regular parts , being from twelve to four- teen inches , but in many places , where a separa- tion had occurred , amounting to several feet . I cannot sufficiently do justice to the ...
... feet ; the thickness of the ice , in the level and regular parts , being from twelve to four- teen inches , but in many places , where a separa- tion had occurred , amounting to several feet . I cannot sufficiently do justice to the ...
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... feet seven inches in height , displayed peculiar tact in acquiring our method of heaving at the windlass , an exercise at which Kōngōlek became expert after an hour or two's practice . The countenances of both were handsome and ...
... feet seven inches in height , displayed peculiar tact in acquiring our method of heaving at the windlass , an exercise at which Kōngōlek became expert after an hour or two's practice . The countenances of both were handsome and ...
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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 farther fathoms favourable feet five floe fore 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