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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... thick weather for sever- al hours . In the course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of drift - ice ; and it hav . ing fallen calm at one P.M. , we despatched ...
... thick weather for sever- al hours . In the course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour , lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of drift - ice ; and it hav . ing fallen calm at one P.M. , we despatched ...
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... thickness of their skin being such that whale - lances generally bend without pen- etrating it . One of these creatures being accident- ally touched by one of the oars in Lieutenant Nias's boat , took hold of it between its flippers ...
... thickness of their skin being such that whale - lances generally bend without pen- etrating it . One of these creatures being accident- ally touched by one of the oars in Lieutenant Nias's boat , took hold of it between its flippers ...
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... thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular patchwork , form- ing a sort of bag of a shape rather oval than round ...
... thick outer coat taken off , and the rest shaved thin , so as to allow of the transmission of light through it . These were put together in a clumsy and irregular patchwork , form- ing a sort of bag of a shape rather oval than round ...
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... thick fog had come on before this time , notwithstanding which , however , we managed to find the ships , and got on board by seven o'clock . Five canoes ar- rived soon after , and the wind being now light and variable , we lay - to for ...
... thick fog had come on before this time , notwithstanding which , however , we managed to find the ships , and got on board by seven o'clock . Five canoes ar- rived soon after , and the wind being now light and variable , we lay - to for ...
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... thick with snow , and threatening a repeti . tion of the same inclement weather as we had late- ly experienced . On the 23d we went on shore to pay another visit to the Esquimaux , who came down on the ice in great numbers to receive us ...
... thick with snow , and threatening a repeti . tion of the same inclement weather as we had late- ly experienced . On the 23d we went on shore to pay another visit to the Esquimaux , who came down on the ice in great numbers to receive us ...
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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