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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... sailed on his expedition , to the year 1764 , when Admiral Tchitschagof , an indefatiga- ble and active officer , endeavored to force a passage round Spitzbergen , ( which , although he attempted with a resolution and skill which would ...
... sailed on his expedition , to the year 1764 , when Admiral Tchitschagof , an indefatiga- ble and active officer , endeavored to force a passage round Spitzbergen , ( which , although he attempted with a resolution and skill which would ...
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... sailed along this track . On the 15th of January , 1818 , the four ships were put in commission - the Isabella , 385 tons , and the Alexander , 252 tons - under Captain Ross , to proceed up the middle of Davis ' Strait , to a high ...
... sailed along this track . On the 15th of January , 1818 , the four ships were put in commission - the Isabella , 385 tons , and the Alexander , 252 tons - under Captain Ross , to proceed up the middle of Davis ' Strait , to a high ...
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... sailed on the 25th of April . The Trent had hardly got clear of the river before she sprang a leak , and was detained in the port of Lerwick nearly fortnight undergoing repairs . On the 18th of May , the ships encountered a severe gale ...
... sailed on the 25th of April . The Trent had hardly got clear of the river before she sprang a leak , and was detained in the port of Lerwick nearly fortnight undergoing repairs . On the 18th of May , the ships encountered a severe gale ...
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... sailed nearly 600 geographical miles in tracing the deeply indented coast of Coronation Gulf from the Coppermine River . On the 22d August , the return voyage was commenced , the boats making for Hood's River by the way of the Arctic ...
... sailed nearly 600 geographical miles in tracing the deeply indented coast of Coronation Gulf from the Coppermine River . On the 22d August , the return voyage was commenced , the boats making for Hood's River by the way of the Arctic ...
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... sailed round , Gore Bay , at that time perfectly clear of ice , but by the next morning it was quite filled with heavy pieces , which much impeded his return . Once more he was frozen up in a small bay , where he was detained three days ...
... sailed round , Gore Bay , at that time perfectly clear of ice , but by the next morning it was quite filled with heavy pieces , which much impeded his return . Once more he was frozen up in a small bay , where he was detained three days ...
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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.