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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... single fortnight , the whole of these were transported from ship to ship without any exposure or labour to the men outside their respective ships , our invaluable dogs having performed it for us with astonishing ease and expe dition ...
... single fortnight , the whole of these were transported from ship to ship without any exposure or labour to the men outside their respective ships , our invaluable dogs having performed it for us with astonishing ease and expe dition ...
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... single nibble rewarded our labour . Coasting the south shore , on which I wished to obtain observations and angles for the survey , we the next day entered a small bay , where we pitch- ed our tent ; our whole party being now so snow ...
... single nibble rewarded our labour . Coasting the south shore , on which I wished to obtain observations and angles for the survey , we the next day entered a small bay , where we pitch- ed our tent ; our whole party being now so snow ...
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... single pieces of wood , one of them painted black over a lead - coloured pri- ming , and the cross - bars consisting of heading - pie . ces of oak - buts , one flat board with a hinge - mark upon it the upper end of a skid or small ...
... single pieces of wood , one of them painted black over a lead - coloured pri- ming , and the cross - bars consisting of heading - pie . ces of oak - buts , one flat board with a hinge - mark upon it the upper end of a skid or small ...
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... single day's journey be- yond Toonoonek , two ships like ours had been driven on shore by the ice , and that the people had gone away in boats equipped for the purpose , leav- ing one ship on her beam ends , and the other up- right , in ...
... single day's journey be- yond Toonoonek , two ships like ours had been driven on shore by the ice , and that the people had gone away in boats equipped for the purpose , leav- ing one ship on her beam ends , and the other up- right , in ...
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... single fish . A sort of fish - gig , which we made out of four large hooks lashed back to back at the end of a light staff , succeeded much better , the bait being played in the usual manner to attract the fish , which were then hooked ...
... single fish . A sort of fish - gig , which we made out of four large hooks lashed back to back at the end of a light staff , succeeded much better , the bait being played in the usual manner to attract the fish , which were then hooked ...
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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