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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... wind being now light and variable , we lay - to for an hour to repay our kind friends for the hospitable reception they had given us . After supplying them abundantly with tin can- isters , knives , and pieces of iron hoop , we hauled ...
... wind being now light and variable , we lay - to for an hour to repay our kind friends for the hospitable reception they had given us . After supplying them abundantly with tin can- isters , knives , and pieces of iron hoop , we hauled ...
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... wind dying away when the ships were off the northeast end of the island , the boats were despatched to tow the whale on shore , while Captain Lyon and myself went ahead to meet some of the canoes that were paddling towards us . We soon ...
... wind dying away when the ships were off the northeast end of the island , the boats were despatched to tow the whale on shore , while Captain Lyon and myself went ahead to meet some of the canoes that were paddling towards us . We soon ...
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... wind being light from the eastward , but the weather much more clear than before , we weighed and stood over to the main- land with the intention of putting our travellers on shore , but found that coast now so lined with the ice which ...
... wind being light from the eastward , but the weather much more clear than before , we weighed and stood over to the main- land with the intention of putting our travellers on shore , but found that coast now so lined with the ice which ...
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... wind blew fresh and cold from the northwest , which caused a quantity of ice to separate from the fixed floe in small pieces during the day , and drift past the ships . Early in the morning , a she - bear and her two cubs were ob ...
... wind blew fresh and cold from the northwest , which caused a quantity of ice to separate from the fixed floe in small pieces during the day , and drift past the ships . Early in the morning , a she - bear and her two cubs were ob ...
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... Wind . - A Canal sawed through the Ice , and the Ships secured in their Winter Station . - Contin- ued Visits of the Esquimaux , and Arrival of some of the Winter Island Tribe . - Proposed Plan of Operations in the ensuing Spring . A ...
... Wind . - A Canal sawed through the Ice , and the Ships secured in their Winter Station . - Contin- ued Visits of the Esquimaux , and Arrival of some of the Winter Island Tribe . - Proposed Plan of Operations in the ensuing Spring . 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