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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... nature , though hitherto tardy in her annual disruption of the ice , had at length made an effort to complete it , did we find our progress once more opposed by a barrier of the same continuous , impenetrable , and hope . less nature as ...
... nature , though hitherto tardy in her annual disruption of the ice , had at length made an effort to complete it , did we find our progress once more opposed by a barrier of the same continuous , impenetrable , and hope . less nature as ...
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... patiently to await its disruption , and instantly to avail myself of any alteration that nature might yet effect in our favour . CHAPTER XII . A Journey performed along the South Shore E 2 OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 53.
... patiently to await its disruption , and instantly to avail myself of any alteration that nature might yet effect in our favour . CHAPTER XII . A Journey performed along the South Shore E 2 OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 53.
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... was about three miles long , proved the only remains of last year's for- mation ; so forcibly had nature struggled to get VOL . II . - F rid of this before the commencement of a fresh winter OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 61.
... was about three miles long , proved the only remains of last year's for- mation ; so forcibly had nature struggled to get VOL . II . - F rid of this before the commencement of a fresh winter OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE . 61.
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... nature of the ice about us , independently of situation , allow us to hope for it ; but both these unfavourable cir . cumstances had been brought about by a contin- gency which no human power or judgment could have obviated 62 SECOND ...
... nature of the ice about us , independently of situation , allow us to hope for it ; but both these unfavourable cir . cumstances had been brought about by a contin- gency which no human power or judgment could have obviated 62 SECOND ...
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... nature ; and a general chart of the Atlantic Ocean , and of the lands on each side , immediately conveyed to his mind an idea of the distance we had come , and the direction in which our home lay . This and similar information was ...
... nature ; and a general chart of the Atlantic Ocean , and of the lands on each side , immediately conveyed to his mind an idea of the distance we had come , and the direction in which our home lay . This and similar information was ...
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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