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, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, and Others, Including the First Grinnell Expedition, Under Lieutenant De Haven, and the Final Effort in Search of Sir John FranklinMiller, Orton, 1857 - 517 Seiten |
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... continued all sail . Mr. Bev- erly , the surgeon , who was the most sanguine , went up to the crow's nest , and at twelve reported to me that before it became thick he had seen the land across the bay , except for a very short space ...
... continued all sail . Mr. Bev- erly , the surgeon , who was the most sanguine , went up to the crow's nest , and at twelve reported to me that before it became thick he had seen the land across the bay , except for a very short space ...
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... continued their progress to the southward , ex- ploring the western coast of Baffin's Bay to Pond's Bay , and Booth's Inlet , discovering the trending of the land , which he named North Galloway , and North Ayr to Cape Adair , and ...
... continued their progress to the southward , ex- ploring the western coast of Baffin's Bay to Pond's Bay , and Booth's Inlet , discovering the trending of the land , which he named North Galloway , and North Ayr to Cape Adair , and ...
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... continued for eight hours with unabated zeal ; and it was not until the tide changed that the smallest effect was produced . When , however , that occurred , the vessels righted and settled in the water to their proper draught . " From ...
... continued for eight hours with unabated zeal ; and it was not until the tide changed that the smallest effect was produced . When , however , that occurred , the vessels righted and settled in the water to their proper draught . " From ...
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... continued to drop down with fa- tigue and weakness , until they were reduced to five persons , besides Franklin . When they had no food or nourishment of any kind , they crept under their blank- ets , to drown , if possible , the ...
... continued to drop down with fa- tigue and weakness , until they were reduced to five persons , besides Franklin . When they had no food or nourishment of any kind , they crept under their blank- ets , to drown , if possible , the ...
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... continued very weak and dispirited , and they were unable to cut fire- wood . Hepburn had , in consequence , that laborious task to perform after he came back late from hunting . " To the exertions , honesty , kindness , and ...
... continued very weak and dispirited , and they were unable to cut fire- wood . Hepburn had , in consequence , that laborious task to perform after he came back late from hunting . " To the exertions , honesty , kindness , and ...
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Admiralty Advance adventurers Arctic arrived August Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Beechey Island Behring's Strait boats brig Cape Walker Capt Captain Inglefield Captain Penny Captain Sir coast Commander 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 icebergs journey July June Kane Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieutenant Mackenzie Mackenzie River Majesty's ship masses Melville Bay Melville Island miles navigation North Star northern northward officers pack party passage passed pemmican perilous Plover Polar Sea Prince Albert proceeded provisions reached Regent Inlet regions Rescue Richardson River sailed seamen season sent shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow tion traces traveled vessels voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter
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Seite 318 - 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 xii - Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal ; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition in 1850-51.
Seite 73 - 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 130 - 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 73 - It would be impossible for me 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 89 - 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 200 - A rugged shell emboss'd with sea-weed shines. From age to age increased with annual snow, This new Mont Blanc among the clouds may glow, Whose conic peak, that earliest greets the dawn, And latest from the sun's shut eye withdrawn, Shall from the zenith, through incumbent gloom, Burn like a lamp upon this naval tomb. But when th...
Seite 210 - 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 78 - London, had been furnished with a small collection of religious books, of which we still retained two or three of the most portable, and they proved of incalculable benefit to us. We read portions of them to each other as we lay in bed, in addition to the morning and evening service, and found that they inspired us on each perusal with so strong a sense of the omnipresence of a beneficent God that our situation even in these wilds appeared no longer destitute, and we conversed not only with calmness...
Seite 82 - Upon entering the now desolate building, we had the satisfaction of embracing Captain Franklin, but no words can convey an idea of the filth and wretchedness that met our eyes on looking around. Our own misery had stolen upon us by degrees, and we were accustomed to the contemplation of each other's emaciated figures, but the ghastly countenances, dilated eye-balls, and sepulchral voices of Mr. Franklin and those with him, were more than we could at first bear.