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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... sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time . Dunn and myself made ...
... sledge as a seat , and we all squatted down to a re- past which was quite new to me . In ten minutes the natives had picked the deer's bones so clean that even the hungry dogs disdained to gnaw them a second time . Dunn and myself made ...
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... sledges racing to the same object , the dogs and men in full cry , and the vehicles splashing through the water with the velocity of rival stage - coaches . " We were joyfully welcomed to the dwelling of Ooyarra , whose guest I was now ...
... sledges racing to the same object , the dogs and men in full cry , and the vehicles splashing through the water with the velocity of rival stage - coaches . " We were joyfully welcomed to the dwelling of Ooyarra , whose guest I was now ...
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... sledges with their wives and children , and thronging on board in great num . bers , as well to gratify their curiosity , of which they do not , in general , possess much , as to pick up whatever trifles we could afford to bestow upon ...
... sledges with their wives and children , and thronging on board in great num . bers , as well to gratify their curiosity , of which they do not , in general , possess much , as to pick up whatever trifles we could afford to bestow upon ...
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... his journey . On his arrival at Owlitteweek , near which island we overtook him , he had buried the greater part of his baggage under heaps of stones , the ice no longer being fit for dragging the sledge 64 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
... his journey . On his arrival at Owlitteweek , near which island we overtook him , he had buried the greater part of his baggage under heaps of stones , the ice no longer being fit for dragging the sledge 64 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY.
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... sledge upon . Here also he was happily eased of a still greater burden , by the death of his idiot boy , who thus escaped the miseries to which a longer life must , among these people , have inevitably exposed him . As for that noisy ...
... sledge upon . Here also he was happily eased of a still greater burden , by the death of his idiot boy , who thus escaped the miseries to which a longer life must , among these people , have inevitably exposed him . As for that noisy ...
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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