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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... half , Captain Lyon , who had a boat's crew composed of officers , and had , unfortunately , broken one of his oars , was under the necessity of returning to the shore . My anxiety lest the ships should be ventured too near the shore ...
... half , Captain Lyon , who had a boat's crew composed of officers , and had , unfortunately , broken one of his oars , was under the necessity of returning to the shore . My anxiety lest the ships should be ventured too near the shore ...
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... half a mile in- land of the tents , and situated upon the rising ground beyond the swamps and ponds before men . tioned , we found the ruins of several winter habi- tations , which , upon land so low as Igloolik , formed very ...
... half a mile in- land of the tents , and situated upon the rising ground beyond the swamps and ponds before men . tioned , we found the ruins of several winter habi- tations , which , upon land so low as Igloolik , formed very ...
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... half torpid state on the ice , and incapable of molesting us . Soon after noon we set forward on our return , and , without seeing any object but the flat and decaying ice , passed from land to land with our former ce- lerity , dashing ...
... half torpid state on the ice , and incapable of molesting us . Soon after noon we set forward on our return , and , without seeing any object but the flat and decaying ice , passed from land to land with our former ce- lerity , dashing ...
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... half asleep , a man came , and , taking me by the hand , desired Dunn to follow . He led to a tent , which , from the stillness within , I conjectured was untenanted . Several men stood near the door , and , on entering , I found ...
... half asleep , a man came , and , taking me by the hand , desired Dunn to follow . He led to a tent , which , from the stillness within , I conjectured was untenanted . Several men stood near the door , and , on entering , I found ...
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... half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet and a half in length ...
... half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone , " exactly suit- ing our purpose . The operation of " flinching " this animal , which was thirty - nine feet and a half in length ...
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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