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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... huts at Igloolik , some taking up their quarters on the ice at a considerable distance to the northwest , and the rest about a mile outside the summer station of the tents . At the close of the year from fifty to sixty individuals had ...
... huts at Igloolik , some taking up their quarters on the ice at a considerable distance to the northwest , and the rest about a mile outside the summer station of the tents . At the close of the year from fifty to sixty individuals had ...
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... huts , placing slabs of the same perishable substance over the body , and cementing them by pouring a little water in the interstices . Such an interment was not likely to be a very se- cure one ; and , accordingly , a few days after ...
... huts , placing slabs of the same perishable substance over the body , and cementing them by pouring a little water in the interstices . Such an interment was not likely to be a very se- cure one ; and , accordingly , a few days after ...
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... huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he passed it . " Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to dress the dead body , and , in the first place , stopped his nose with deer's hair and put on his gloves , seeming unwill . ing that his ...
... huts with his wife , one was devouring the body as he passed it . " Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to dress the dead body , and , in the first place , stopped his nose with deer's hair and put on his gloves , seeming unwill . ing that his ...
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... huts , so distended by the quantity of meat they had eaten that they were unable to move , and were suffering consider- able pain , arising solely from this cause . Indeed , it is difficult to assign any other probable reason for the ...
... huts , so distended by the quantity of meat they had eaten that they were unable to move , and were suffering consider- able pain , arising solely from this cause . Indeed , it is difficult to assign any other probable reason for the ...
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... huts , that they were obliged to substitute skins as the roofs , retaining , however , the sides and part of the passages of the original habitations . These demi - tents were miserable enough while in this state , some of the snow ...
... huts , that they were obliged to substitute skins as the roofs , retaining , however , the sides and part of the passages of the original habitations . These demi - tents were miserable enough while in this state , some of the snow ...
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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