Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833: Including the Reports of James Clark Ross and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic PoleBaudry, 1835 - 542 páginas |
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appeared arrived Batty bay became blew boats breeze calm Cape Cape Garry coast cold Commander Ross consequence continued contrived crew discovered discovery dogs dovekies drift eastward eight engine Esquimaux expedition feet fell fish following day former four frozen further Fury gale Greenland harbour heavy hope icebergs Igloolik inlet island journey labour lake Lancaster sound land latitude length longitude means midnight miles minus month morning musk ox natives navigators Neitchillee night noon north-east north-west passage northward Nova Zembla o'clock obliged observations ourselves party passed Port Logan present proceeded proved provisions reached reindeer remark Repulse bay returned river rocks sailed seal season seemed seen ship shore Sir Edward Parry sledge snow snow buntings soon southward strait Sunday temperature thermometer thermometer rose thick thing tide voyage weather westward whole wind winter
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Página 91 - ... these mountains hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium, they fall over headlong, lifting the sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies. There is not a moment in which it can be conjectured what will happen in the next ; there is not one which may not be the last.
Página 340 - Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc. But Nature had here erected no monument to denote the spot which she had chosen as the centre of one of her great and dark powers...
Página 454 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the...
Página 443 - Night at length brought quiet and serious thoughts ; and I trust there was not one man among us who did not then express, where it was due, his gratitude for that interposition which had raised us all from a despair which none could now forget, and had brought us from the very borders of a not distant grave, to life and friends and civilisation.
Página 454 - I have received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the...
Página 450 - ... the consistency of ice, and thus we actually became the inhabitants of an iceberg during one of the most severe winters hitherto recorded; our sufferings aggravated by want of bedding, clothing, and animal food, need not be dwelt upon. Mr. C. Thomas, the carpenter, was the only man who perished at this beach, but three others, besides one who had lost his foot, were reduced to the last stage of debility, and only thirteen of our number were able to carry provisions in seven journies of sixty-two...
Página 449 - May, 1829, notwithstanding the loss of the foremast and other untoward circumstances, which obliged the vessel to refit in Greenland, reached the beach on which his Majesty's late ship Fury's stores were landed on the 13th of August. We found the boats, provisions, &c., in excellent condition, but no vestige of the wreck. After completing...
Página 443 - All, everything too, was to be done at once : it was washing, dressing, shaving, eating, all intermingled : it was all the materials of each jumbled together, while in the midst of all there were interminable questions to be asked and answered on both sides ; the adventures of the " Victory," our own escapes, the politics of England, and the news which was now four years old.
Página 449 - Ross, who volunteered this service early in April, and, accompanied by one of the mates, and guided by two of the natives, proceeded to the spot, and found that the north land was connected to the south by two ridges of high land...
Página 121 - It would be very desirable indeed if the men could acquire the taste for Greenland food ; since all experience has shown that the large use of oil and fat meats is the true secret of life in these frozen countries, and that the natives cannot subsist without it ; becoming diseased, and dying under a more meager diet.