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, Dr. Kane, and Others, Including the Long and Fruitless Efforts and Failures in Search of Sir John Franklin. Ed. and Completed to 1855J.W. Lovell, 1886 - 640 sider Narrative of chief adventures and discoveries of arctic explorers during the nineteenth century. |
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... assistance to be rendered - Second report of Admiral Beaufort to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty - Various private and official letters and dispatches , pointing out , or commenting on plans and modes of relief - Abundance of ...
... assistance to be rendered - Second report of Admiral Beaufort to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty - Various private and official letters and dispatches , pointing out , or commenting on plans and modes of relief - Abundance of ...
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... Assistance , under command of Captain Austin , with their steam tenders , Pioneer and Intrepid , 1850-51 ... 313 Ships purchased and are renamed by the government - Officers employed - instruc- ions given to search Wellington Channel ...
... Assistance , under command of Captain Austin , with their steam tenders , Pioneer and Intrepid , 1850-51 ... 313 Ships purchased and are renamed by the government - Officers employed - instruc- ions given to search Wellington Channel ...
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... assistance , and had the good fortune to fall in with the party , and bring them safely on board , after eighteen hours ' absence . They determined in future to rest sat- isfied with the view of the shore which was afforded them from ...
... assistance , and had the good fortune to fall in with the party , and bring them safely on board , after eighteen hours ' absence . They determined in future to rest sat- isfied with the view of the shore which was afforded them from ...
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... assistance to the vessel . The mo- tion , 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 ...
... assistance to the vessel . The mo- tion , 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 ...
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... assistance of some weed scraped from the rocks , ( tripe de roche ) which forms a glutinous substance , made us a tolerable suppor ; it was not of the most choice kind , While we were eat- yet good enough for hungry men 68 PROGRESS OF ...
... assistance of some weed scraped from the rocks , ( tripe de roche ) which forms a glutinous substance , made us a tolerable suppor ; it was not of the most choice kind , While we were eat- yet good enough for hungry men 68 PROGRESS OF ...
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Admiralty Arctic arrived August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait boats Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander Coppermine Coppermine River crew direction discovered discovery dispatched drifted eastward 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 Lieut Lieutenant Mackenzie Mackenzie River Melville Bay Melville Island miles natives navigation night North Somerset northern northward officers pack party passage passed pemmican perilous Polar Sea Pole proceeded provisions reached Regent Inlet regions Repulse Bay Rescue Richardson River sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledge snow southward Spitzbergen tion traveled vessels voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter
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Side 316 - 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...
Side 154 - Medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 130 - ... the ship received. We found, by the well, that she made no water, and by dark she struck no more. God was merciful to us, and the tide, almost miraculously, fell no lower.
Side 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.
Side 593 - We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through ! 70 And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners...
Side 67 - Prayer-Book but the Lord's Prayer and Creed were always read to them in their own language. Our diet consisted almost entirely of reindeer meat, varied twice a week by fish and occasionally by a little flour, but we had no vegetables of any description. On the Sunday mornings we drank a cup of chocolate but our greatest luxury was tea (without sugar) of which we regularly partook twice a day.
Side 133 - ... weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture calculated to impress upon the mind an idea of inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything, in short, but life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears out of "keeping. The presence of man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which even its native animals have for awhile...
Side 278 - WHITHER sail you, Sir John Franklin ?" Cried a whaler in Baffin's Bay ; " To know if between the land and the Pole, I may find a broad sea-way." " I charge you back, Sir John Franklin, As you would live and thrive, For between the land and the frozen Pole No man