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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... masses of ice had been thrown in every direction . Several blocks , eight or nine feet in thickness , and many yards in diameter , were lying on the level solid floe ; yet we were for some time at a loss to discover whence they had been ...
... masses of ice had been thrown in every direction . Several blocks , eight or nine feet in thickness , and many yards in diameter , were lying on the level solid floe ; yet we were for some time at a loss to discover whence they had been ...
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... masses of ice among themselves , we had , at noon on the 30th , drifted down within a mile of a small island lying near the northeast point of Winter Island . On the 31st the tide took us through between these , the breadth of the ...
... masses of ice among themselves , we had , at noon on the 30th , drifted down within a mile of a small island lying near the northeast point of Winter Island . On the 31st the tide took us through between these , the breadth of the ...
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... masses of ice about them . On the evening of the 11th , however , the wind at length began to freshen from the north- west , when the ice immediately commenced driving down the inlet at the rate of a mile an hour , car- rying the Fury ...
... masses of ice about them . On the evening of the 11th , however , the wind at length began to freshen from the north- west , when the ice immediately commenced driving down the inlet at the rate of a mile an hour , car- rying the Fury ...
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... masses , that no power that could be applied was sufficient to move her an inch . In this situation she remained all the 16th , without our being able to render her any assistance ; and the frost being now rather se- vere at night , we ...
... masses , that no power that could be applied was sufficient to move her an inch . In this situation she remained all the 16th , without our being able to render her any assistance ; and the frost being now rather se- vere at night , we ...
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... masses were comparatively small , and their thickness much diminished . Bergs were in sight during the whole passage , but they were more numerous towards the middle of the " pack , " and rather the most so to the southward . CHAPTER II ...
... masses were comparatively small , and their thickness much diminished . Bergs were in sight during the whole passage , but they were more numerous towards the middle of the " pack , " and rather the most so to the southward . CHAPTER II ...
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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