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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... land them at the precise place of their des tination . The ice again opening , we were now obliged to dismiss them , after half an hour's visit , when , having run to the Hecla's bows to see Cap- tain Lyon and his people , they returned ...
... land them at the precise place of their des tination . The ice again opening , we were now obliged to dismiss them , after half an hour's visit , when , having run to the Hecla's bows to see Cap- tain Lyon and his people , they returned ...
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... land . ice left the preceding night by its own separation , breaking it up with a tremendous crash , and for- cing numberless immense masses , perhaps many tons in weight , to the height of fifty or sixty feet , from whence they again ...
... land . ice left the preceding night by its own separation , breaking it up with a tremendous crash , and for- cing numberless immense masses , perhaps many tons in weight , to the height of fifty or sixty feet , from whence they again ...
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... land lying next to the northward of Cape Wilson , and which is low for a short dis- tance next the sea . At nine o'clock a large mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under it , having lost its ...
... land lying next to the northward of Cape Wilson , and which is low for a short dis- tance next the sea . At nine o'clock a large mass of ice fell off the land - floe and struck our stern ; and a " calf " lying under it , having lost its ...
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... land - ice , the ships were secured late at night , after several hours of extreme labour to the people in the boats . On the morning of the 13th , the ice being still close in with the land just to the northward of us , I determined on ...
... land - ice , the ships were secured late at night , after several hours of extreme labour to the people in the boats . On the morning of the 13th , the ice being still close in with the land just to the northward of us , I determined on ...
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... land ; so that at four P.M. , as soon as the flood - tide had slackened , we cast off and made all possible sail to the northward , steering for a headland , remarkable for having a patch of land towards the sea , that appeared insular ...
... land ; so that at four P.M. , as soon as the flood - tide had slackened , we cast off and made all possible sail to the northward , steering for a headland , remarkable for having a patch of land towards the sea , that appeared insular ...
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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