Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Perry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane and Others, Including the Long and Fruitless Efforts and Failures in Search of Sir John Franklin. Ed. and Completed to 1855Miller, Orton, 1857 - 517 Seiten |
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... appeared before . Sir John Barrow was one of the chief writers for the Quarterly Review , and his articles in that journal amount to nearly 200 in number , forming , when bound up , twelve separate volumes . All those relating to the ...
... appeared before . Sir John Barrow was one of the chief writers for the Quarterly Review , and his articles in that journal amount to nearly 200 in number , forming , when bound up , twelve separate volumes . All those relating to the ...
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... appeared to be about forty feet high and a thousand feet long . It is hardly possible to imagine any thing more exquisite than the variety of tints which these icebergs display ; by night as well as by day they glitter with a vividness ...
... appeared to be about forty feet high and a thousand feet long . It is hardly possible to imagine any thing more exquisite than the variety of tints which these icebergs display ; by night as well as by day they glitter with a vividness ...
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... appeared extremely high in the center . Although a passage in this direc- tion appeared hopeless , I was determined to explore it completely . I therefore continued all sail . Mr. Bev- erly , the surgeon , who was the most sanguine ...
... appeared extremely high in the center . Although a passage in this direc- tion appeared hopeless , I was determined to explore it completely . I therefore continued all sail . Mr. Bev- erly , the surgeon , who was the most sanguine ...
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... appeared to be so closely wedged up that it did not seem possible for her to be moved , she was suddenly lifted four feet by an enor- mous mass of ice getting under her keel ; at another , the fragments of the crumbling floe were piled ...
... appeared to be so closely wedged up that it did not seem possible for her to be moved , she was suddenly lifted four feet by an enor- mous mass of ice getting under her keel ; at another , the fragments of the crumbling floe were piled ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Admiralty Arctic arrived attempt August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Beechey Island Behring's Strait boats Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander continued Coppermine Coppermine River course crew direction discovered discovery dispatched drifted eastward endeavor England Enterprise Esquimaux examine expedition exploring feet floes frozen Fury gale Greenland harbor Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company icebergs journey July June Kane Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieutenant Mackenzie River Melville Island miles months navigation North Somerset northern northward officers pack party passage passed pemmican perilous Polar Sea Pole proceeded provisions quarters reached Regent Inlet regions Richardson sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow Spitzbergen tion traces traveled vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel western westward whalers wind winter
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Seite 310 - Venerable, off the coast of Holland, the i2th of October, by log (nth1 three PM Camperdown ESE eight mile. Wind N. by E. Sir, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Seite 202 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror...
Seite 154 - Medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him.
Seite 75 - It would be impossible to describe our sensations after entering this miserable abode and discovering how we had been neglected; the whole party shed tears, not so much for our own fate as for that of our friends in the rear, whose lives depended entirely on our sending immediate relief from this place.
Seite 272 - The crew laughed out in glee. Sir John, Sir John, 'tis bitter cold, The scud drives on the breeze, The ice comes looming from the north, The very sunbeams freeze.
Seite 272 - The little Indian said; And change your cloth for fur clothing, Your vessel for a sled. But lightly laughed the stout Sir John, And the crew laughed with him too : — A sailor to change from ship to sled, I ween were something new...
Seite 75 - Previous to setting out the whole party ate the remains of their old shoes and whatever scraps of leather they had to strengthen their stomachs for the fatigue of the day's journey.
Seite 132 - Never perhaps was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be, in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible, that among forty-one persons, not one repining word should have been uttered.
Seite 91 - An Act for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the North Pole.
Seite 84 - Had my own life alone been threatened, I would not have purchased it by such a measure ; but I considered myself as intrusted also with the protection of Hepburn's, a man, who, by his humane attentions and devotedness, had so endeared himself to me, that I felt more anxiety for his safety than for my own.