A Journey to the North PoleG. Routledge, 1875 - 314 oldal |
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anchor animal Arctic asked Shandon asked the Doctor Baffin's Bay bear began Bell Bellot Birkenhead boatswain Bolton brave brig Brunton cabin Cape Cape Dundas Cape Farewell captain certainly Channel Clawbonny Clifton close coal coast cold Cornhill crew deck Esquimaux exclaimed Shandon exclaimed the Doctor expedition eyes feet fell fire floes followed Forward foxes Franklin Garry gazing Greenland Gripper hand ice-fields ice-master icebergs Isle Beechey James Ross James Wall Lancaster Sound latitude letter Liverpool look McClintock McClintock Channel Melville Bay miles morning never night pemmican pole poop reached replied Hatteras replied Shandon replied the Doctor Richard Shandon sail sailors ship shore side sight Simpson sledge snow soon steam stood Straits tell temperature thermometer thick vessel voyage weather Wellington Channel whale wind winter دو
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191. oldal - ... COMPANIONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND PERISHED IN THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE AND THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED NEAR THE SPOT WHERE THEY PASSED THEIR FIRST ARCTIC WINTER, AND WHENCE THEY ISSUED FORTH TO CONQUER DIFFICULTIES OR TO DIE. IT COMMEMORATES THE GRIEF OF THEIR ADMIRING COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS, AND THE ANGUISH SUBDUED BY FAITH, OF HER WHO HAS LOST, IN THE HEROIC LEADER OF THE EXPEDITION, THE MOST DEVOTED AND AFECTIONATE OF HUSBANDS. " And so HE bringeth them unto the Haven where...
1. oldal - Such was the announcement which appeared in the Liverpool Herald of April 5, 1860. The departure of a brig is not a very important event for one of the largest trading ports in England. Indeed, who would notice it among the crowd of ships, of every tonnage and every nation, which the long miles of floating docks can scarcely contain ; and yet from an early hour on the morning...
264. oldal - And these poor fellows are not aware of it ! " exclaimed the Doctor. " Hush ! " said Hatteras, laying his finger on his lips. CHAPTER XXVII. PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. HATTERAS would not acquaint his men with the discovery he had made, and he was right, for there was no knowing into what excesses despair might have led them, had they felt themselves thus irresistibly dragged further north. To himself, however, the knowledge of the fact afforded the greatest joy.
220. oldal - As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots.
262. oldal - Expedition," when he came across a passage he had never noticed before. He read it over and over again, to satisfy himself it was no mistake. Sir Edward stated that after reaching the end of the Queen's Channel, he met with traces of human habitation on the shore.