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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... prove more favourable for our seeing the land , the only advan- tage now to be derived from our visit , since the fish- ing place was not attainable , it was decided to pass the night on one of the rocky islands . The Esqui- maux having ...
... prove more favourable for our seeing the land , the only advan- tage now to be derived from our visit , since the fish- ing place was not attainable , it was decided to pass the night on one of the rocky islands . The Esqui- maux having ...
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... 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 , occupied most of the afternoon , each ship ...
... 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 , occupied most of the afternoon , each ship ...
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... proved so 66 rotten " and decayed that the ships forced themselves three or four hundred yards through it before they stop . ped . Keeping all our canvass spread , we then tried to break the thin edges about the numerous holes , by ...
... proved so 66 rotten " and decayed that the ships forced themselves three or four hundred yards through it before they stop . ped . Keeping all our canvass spread , we then tried to break the thin edges about the numerous holes , by ...
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... prove a second strait , to watch the breaking up of the ice about its eastern entrance , that no favoura- ble opportunity might be missed of pushing through it to the westward . I therefore determined to de- spatch three separate ...
... prove a second strait , to watch the breaking up of the ice about its eastern entrance , that no favoura- ble opportunity might be missed of pushing through it to the westward . I therefore determined to de- spatch three separate ...
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... proved remarkably small , two or three men being able to lift her into a boat . At half past nine on the morning of the 1st of September , one of our parties was descried at the appointed rendezvous on shore , which , on our send- ing a ...
... proved remarkably small , two or three men being able to lift her into a boat . At half past nine on the morning of the 1st of September , one of our parties was descried at the appointed rendezvous on shore , which , on our send- ing a ...
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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