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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... rendering the weather extremely thick , and our situation , conse- quently , very precarious , should the ice give way during the hours of darkness . At four P.M. on the 15th we discovered our travellers OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 55.
... rendering the weather extremely thick , and our situation , conse- quently , very precarious , should the ice give way during the hours of darkness . At four P.M. on the 15th we discovered our travellers OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 55.
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... give them any share of their milk , which they consider as the exclusive property of their own offspring . My 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 ...
... give them any share of their milk , which they consider as the exclusive property of their own offspring . My 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 ...
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... give some idea of what they are able to per form , to state , that nine dogs of Captain Lyon's dragged sixteen hundred and eleven pounds a dis- tance of seventeen hundred and fifty yards in nine minutes , and that they worked in a ...
... give some idea of what they are able to per form , to state , that nine dogs of Captain Lyon's dragged sixteen hundred and eleven pounds a dis- tance of seventeen hundred and fifty yards in nine minutes , and that they worked in a ...
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... give him for his trouble ; and when , in writing a note to Lieutenant Nias , I enumerated the articles I intended to present to him , he expressed more delight than I had ever before seen escape him . Among these was one of the rifle ...
... give him for his trouble ; and when , in writing a note to Lieutenant Nias , I enumerated the articles I intended to present to him , he expressed more delight than I had ever before seen escape him . Among these was one of the rifle ...
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... give something ; and , indeed , they all received as many presents as their canoes could safely carry or tow on shore . Their tents , nine in number , were pitched on the main land , a little to the northward of Ooglit , at a station ...
... give something ; and , indeed , they all received as many presents as their canoes could safely carry or tow on shore . Their tents , nine in number , were pitched on the main land , a little to the northward of Ooglit , at a station ...
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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