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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... snow , and the numerous lakes and precipices . At nine A.M. on the 2d , Lieutenant Reid and his party were descried at their landing - place , and a boat being sent for them , arrived on board at half past eleven . He reported that the ...
... snow , and the numerous lakes and precipices . At nine A.M. on the 2d , Lieutenant Reid and his party were descried at their landing - place , and a boat being sent for them , arrived on board at half past eleven . He reported that the ...
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... snow , which continued during the night , rendering the weather extremely thick , and our situation , conse- quently , very precarious , should the ice give way during the hours of darkness . At four P.M. on the 15th we discovered our ...
... snow , which continued during the night , rendering the weather extremely thick , and our situation , conse- quently , very precarious , should the ice give way during the hours of darkness . At four P.M. on the 15th we discovered our ...
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... snow , and there being now every reason to suppose a final disruption of the fixed ice at hand , I deter- mined to provide against the danger to which , at night , this long - wished - for event would expose the ships , by adopting a ...
... snow , and there being now every reason to suppose a final disruption of the fixed ice at hand , I deter- mined to provide against the danger to which , at night , this long - wished - for event would expose the ships , by adopting a ...
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... snow that covered them , that , had it not been for the Esquimaux huts , we should not easily have recognised the place . At noon on the 24th we arrived off the point where the tents had first been pitched , and were immedi- ately ...
... snow that covered them , that , had it not been for the Esquimaux huts , we should not easily have recognised the place . At noon on the 24th we arrived off the point where the tents had first been pitched , and were immedi- ately ...
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... snow ; and , indeed , many of the huts were subsequently lined in the same way within , the skins being attached to the sides and roof by slender threads of whalebone , disposed in large and regular stitches . Before the passages ...
... snow ; and , indeed , many of the huts were subsequently lined in the same way within , the skins being attached to the sides and roof by slender threads of whalebone , disposed in large and regular stitches . Before the passages ...
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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