Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of the Discovery Ships Under Command of Sir John Franklin, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 4 Seiten |
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... carry relief to the crews . Sir John also laid statements of his apprehensions before the Royal and Geographical Societies , and , the public attention being thereby roused , several writers in the newspapers and other periodicals ...
... carry relief to the crews . Sir John also laid statements of his apprehensions before the Royal and Geographical Societies , and , the public attention being thereby roused , several writers in the newspapers and other periodicals ...
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... carried out when the proper time should arrive . A brief review of the replies most worthy of notice may help the reader to form a judgment of the plans that were eventually adopted by the Admiralty for the discovery and relief of the ...
... carried out when the proper time should arrive . A brief review of the replies most worthy of notice may help the reader to form a judgment of the plans that were eventually adopted by the Admiralty for the discovery and relief of the ...
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... carried by the ice , which is known to drift to the southward , on land ( Banks's Land ) seen at a great distance in that direction , and from which the accu- mulation of ice behind them will , " says he , " as in my own case , for ever ...
... carried by the ice , which is known to drift to the southward , on land ( Banks's Land ) seen at a great distance in that direction , and from which the accu- mulation of ice behind them will , " says he , " as in my own case , for ever ...
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... carry the required relief to his exhausted crews . James Clark Ross was appointed to the command of this expedition , consisting of the " Enterprise and " Investigator ; " and , as his plan of proceeding bears upon my own instructions ...
... carry the required relief to his exhausted crews . James Clark Ross was appointed to the command of this expedition , consisting of the " Enterprise and " Investigator ; " and , as his plan of proceeding bears upon my own instructions ...
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... carry his ships . Should he have done so , and his egress by the way he entered be barred by the ice closing in behind him as already suggested , there remained a probability that the annual progression of the ice southwards would ...
... carry his ships . Should he have done so , and his egress by the way he entered be barred by the ice closing in behind him as already suggested , there remained a probability that the annual progression of the ice southwards would ...
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