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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... morning of the 27th was rather fine for a short time , and we saw above thirty islands , which I named CoxE'S GROUP , varying in size from one hundred yards to a mile or more in length . Two deer were observed on the northern land ...
... morning of the 27th was rather fine for a short time , and we saw above thirty islands , which I named CoxE'S GROUP , varying in size from one hundred yards to a mile or more in length . Two deer were observed on the northern land ...
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... morning of the 29th I was really glad to find that the ships were not yet in sight , as I should be enabled to pass another day among the hospitable natives . While making my rounds I met several others , who were also visiting , and ...
... morning of the 29th I was really glad to find that the ships were not yet in sight , as I should be enabled to pass another day among the hospitable natives . While making my rounds I met several others , who were also visiting , and ...
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... morning . The usual signal being exhibited , all the boats were sent to their assist- ance , and in less than an hour and a half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone ...
... morning . The usual signal being exhibited , all the boats were sent to their assist- ance , and in less than an hour and a half had kill . ed and secured the fish , which proved a moderate- sized one of above " nine feet bone ...
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... meaning thereby to intimate that their knowledge and resources are there both at an end . The disruption of the ice continued to proceed slowly till early on the morning of the 14th ; 42 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... meaning thereby to intimate that their knowledge and resources are there both at an end . The disruption of the ice continued to proceed slowly till early on the morning of the 14th ; 42 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... morning of the 14th ; the breeze having freshened from the northwest , an- other floe broke away from the fixed ice , allowing us to gain about half a mile more to the westward ; such was the vexatious slowness with which we were ...
... morning of the 14th ; the breeze having freshened from the northwest , an- other floe broke away from the fixed ice , allowing us to gain about half a mile more to the westward ; such was the vexatious slowness with which we were ...
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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