Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And a Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the the North Pole, Volumen1Harper, 1840 |
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... four or five years . That none of the Esquimaux tribe had visited this part of the coast since we landed there in 1818 , was evident from the flagstaff then erected still remaining un- touched . Mr. Fisher found every part of the val ...
... four or five years . That none of the Esquimaux tribe had visited this part of the coast since we landed there in 1818 , was evident from the flagstaff then erected still remaining un- touched . Mr. Fisher found every part of the val ...
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... four times that distance . The weather was beautifully calm and clear on the 13th , when , being near an opening in the east- ern shore , I took the opportunity of examining it in a boat . It proved to be a bay , a mile wide at its ...
... four times that distance . The weather was beautifully calm and clear on the 13th , when , being near an opening in the east- ern shore , I took the opportunity of examining it in a boat . It proved to be a bay , a mile wide at its ...
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... four different places . Six of these , which Captain Sabine had an opportunity of examining , and which are situated on a level sandy bank , at the side of a small ravine near the sea , are de . scribed by him as consisting of stones ...
... four different places . Six of these , which Captain Sabine had an opportunity of examining , and which are situated on a level sandy bank , at the side of a small ravine near the sea , are de . scribed by him as consisting of stones ...
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... four or five feet in diame . ter , which had probably been the fireplace . The small circles were placed indifferently as to their direction from the huts to which they belonged ; and from the moss and sand which covered some of the ...
... four or five feet in diame . ter , which had probably been the fireplace . The small circles were placed indifferently as to their direction from the huts to which they belonged ; and from the moss and sand which covered some of the ...
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... four A.M. , I was informed by the officer of the watch that a breeze had sprung up , and that there was very lit. tle ice near the ships . Anxious to take advantage of these favourable circumstances , I directed all sail to be made to ...
... four A.M. , I was informed by the officer of the watch that a breeze had sprung up , and that there was very lit. tle ice near the ships . Anxious to take advantage of these favourable circumstances , I directed all sail to be made to ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared beach began boat breeze cabin canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast continued course deck direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Gore Bay Greenland Griper half past heavy Hecla hill hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet island Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying masses of ice Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward Northwest Passage o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party passage pieces Possession Bay present quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay round sail scarcely seal seen ships shore side situation six P.M. sledge snow soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion to-day usual voyage walked weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island