The Jeannette: And a Complete and Authentic Narrative Encyclopedia of All Voyages and Expeditions to the North Polar Regions ...A. Roman, 1883 - 840 oldal |
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admiralty anchor Arctic Ocean Arctic voyage arrived August Baffin's Bay Beechey Beechey Island began boat Cape Capt Captain channel coast commander Coppermine crew danger days later discovered discovery distance dogs east England English enterprise Esquimaux expedition exploration farther feet fish floe four Franklin frozen Fury Greenland harbor Hecla honor hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company huts icebergs Indians Inlet Island journey July June Kamchatka Kane Kolyma Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut longitude Matinschkin Melville Peninsula miles months Muscovy Company named natives navigators night Norsemen northeast northern northward Northwest Passage Ocean officers open sea Parry party Pole Prince Regent Inlet proceeded provisions reached regions reindeer River Ross Russian sailed scurvy season seen ship shore sledges snow soon Spitzbergen Strait supplies Tchuktchi tion took vessel visited weather Wellington Channel whaling wind winter quarters Wrangell
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563. oldal - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
139. oldal - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
331. oldal - Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 11' 00" N., and longitude 94° 30' 0
28. oldal - We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.
21. oldal - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
323. oldal - Victory," our own escapes, the politics of England, and the news which was now four years old. But all subsided into peace at last. The sick were accommodated, the seamen disposed of, and all was done for us which care and kindness could perform.
183. oldal - He feels his frame crushed by unaccountable pressure, he drags a galling and stubborn weight at his feet, and his track is marked with blood. The dazzling scene around him affords no rest to his eye, no object to divert his attention from his own agonizing sensations. When he arises from sleep, half his body seems dead, till quickened into feeling by the irritation of his sores.
133. oldal - The prospect," says the distinguished naturalist, " was most extensive and grand. A fine sheltered bay was seen to the east of us ; an arm of the same on the north-east ; and the sea, whose glassy surface was unruffled by a breeze, formed an immense expanse on the west ; the icebergs, rearing their proud crests almost to the tops of the mountains between which they were lodged, and defying the power of the solar beams, were scattered in various directions about the sea-coast and in the adjoining...
195. oldal - He launched into the stream with the line round his middle, but when he had got a short distance from the bank, his arms became benumbed with cold, and he lost the power of moving them ; still he . persevered, and, turning on his back, had nearly gained the opposite bank, when his legs also' became powerless, and to our infinite alarm we beheld him sink. We instantly hauled upon the line and he came again on the surface, and was gradually drawn ashore in an almost lifeless state.
128. oldal - One of our seamen sold his stock alone for eight hundred dollars ; and a few prime skins, which were clean, and had been well preserved, were sold for one hundred and twenty each. The whole amount of the •value, in specie and goods, that was got for the furs, in both ships, I am confident did not fall short of two thousand pounds sterling...