Arctic Adventure by Sea and Land: From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John FranklinEpes Sargent Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857 - 480 Seiten |
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... became the prime object with mercantile adventurers , who hoped to find a way to the rich and gorgeous countries lying beyond . In the year 1500 , Gaspar Cortereal , a Portuguese , animated with the desire to emulate Columbus in mak ...
... became the prime object with mercantile adventurers , who hoped to find a way to the rich and gorgeous countries lying beyond . In the year 1500 , Gaspar Cortereal , a Portuguese , animated with the desire to emulate Columbus in mak ...
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... became faster , and could not loose our ship , as at other times we had done , as also that it began to be winter , we tooke counsell together what we were best to doe , according to the time , that we might winter there , and attend ...
... became faster , and could not loose our ship , as at other times we had done , as also that it began to be winter , we tooke counsell together what we were best to doe , according to the time , that we might winter there , and attend ...
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... became low the walls were soon covered with thick ice , even the beds were lined with it . Except when employed in cooking , they lay constantly in their beds . Oftentimes they heard tre- mendous noises like thunder break the fearful ...
... became low the walls were soon covered with thick ice , even the beds were lined with it . Except when employed in cooking , they lay constantly in their beds . Oftentimes they heard tre- mendous noises like thunder break the fearful ...
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... became white with frost and ice . They increased the size of their fire , but from their recent warning kept an opening for the smoke . They had used all the wood laid up in their hut by the middle of January , and they were obliged to ...
... became white with frost and ice . They increased the size of their fire , but from their recent warning kept an opening for the smoke . They had used all the wood laid up in their hut by the middle of January , and they were obliged to ...
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... now grew longer and darker , and they had now , in addition to their former precautions , to guard against shipwreck . The fresh water on board was rap- idly diminishing . The labor of the ship became too 48 BEHRING .
... now grew longer and darker , and they had now , in addition to their former precautions , to guard against shipwreck . The fresh water on board was rap- idly diminishing . The labor of the ship became too 48 BEHRING .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
appeared Arctic arrived August Back Baffin's Bay Banks's Land Barrow's Strait Batty Bay Beechey Island Behring's Strait Bellot boat Boothia canoe Cape Walker Captain coast cold command Coppermine crew direction discovered discovery distance dogs drift Erebus Esquimaux expedition explorers feet floe four frozen gale Greenland harbor hope Hudson's Bay hundred icebergs journey July June Kane Kellett Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound latitude Lieut longitude M'Clure Mackenzie Mackenzie River masses of ice Melville Island miles navigators night North Somerset north-west passage northern northward open water pack Parry Parry's party passed pemmican perilous Plover Polar Sea Prince Albert proceeded provisions reached Repulse Bay River Ross sailed says season seen September ship shore side Sir Edward Parry Sir John Franklin sledge snow soon southward tion traces travelled vessel Victoria Land voyage weather Wellington Channel westward whale wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 193 - This, then, may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 11' 00" N.,...
Seite 417 - Some of the bodies had been buried, (probably those of the first victims of famine,) some were in a tent or tents, others under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions.
Seite 79 - Each person instinctively secured his own hold, and with his eyes fixed upon the masts, awaited in breathless anxiety the moment of concussion. It soon arrived, — the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant we all lost our footing, the masts bent with the impetus, and the cracking timbers from below bespoke a pressure which was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions.
Seite 433 - They were fearful traps to disengage a limb from, for every man knew that a fracture, or a sprain even, would cost him his life. Besides all this, the sledge was top-heavy with its load: the maimed men could not bear to be lashed down tight enough to secure them against falling off. Notwithstanding our caution in rejecting every superfluous burden, the weight, including bags and tent, was eleven hundred pounds. And yet our march for the first six hours was very cheering. We made, by vigorous pulls...
Seite 79 - The motion, indeed, was so great, that the ship's bell, which in the heaviest gale of wind had never struck of itself, now tolled so continually, that it was ordered to be muffled, for the purpose of escaping the unpleasant association it was calculated to produce.
Seite 431 - Bonsall, who had stood out our severest marches, were seized with trembling fits and short breath; and, in spite of all my efforts to keep up an example of sound bearing, I fainted twice on the snow. We had been nearly eighteen hours out without water or food, when a new hope cheered us. I think it was Hans, our Esquimaux hunter, who thought he saw a broad sledge-track.
Seite 78 - All parts appeared to be equally impenetrable, and to present one unbroken line of furious breakers, in which immense pieces of ice were heaving and subsiding with the waves, and dashing together with a violence which nothing apparently but a solid body could withstand, occasioning such a noise that it was with the greatest difficulty the officers could make their orders heard by the crew.
Seite 173 - The place of the observatory was as near to the magnetic pole as the limited means which I possessed enabled me to determine. The amount of the dip, as indicated by my dipping-needle, was 89° 59', being thus within one minute of the vertical; while the proximity at least of this pole, if not its actual existence where we stood, was further confirmed by the action, or rather by the total inaction of the several horizontal needles then in my possession.
Seite 106 - ... journals. I had only one blanket, which was carried for me, and two pair of shoes. The offer was now made for any of the men, who felt themselves too weak to proceed, to remain with the officers, but none of them accepted it. Michel alone felt some inclination to do so. After we had united in thanksgiving and prayers to Almighty God, I separated from my companions, deeply afflicted that a train of melancholy circumstances should have demanded of me the severe trial of parting...
Seite 58 - With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We...