Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 3John Murray, 1835 |
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Admiralty Inlet Amherst Island anchor appearance arrived beach bergs black whales board the Fury boats body of ice breeze cables Captain Hoppner Captain Lyon circumstance clear close coast Cockburn Island considerable continued course creek despatched direction distance dogs Dovekies drift easterly eastward endeavour entrance Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet fixed ice floe following day Fury's gale Greenland half half-past harbour hawsers heaving Hecla hundred huts Igloolik inches journey Kabloonas land latitude Lieutenant long-tailed duck masses of ice Melville Island miles morning narrow neighbourhood night noon north-west northward observed obtained occasion officers once open water party passage Port Bowen present quarter remained remark sail scarcely scurvy season seen seven ships shore side situation sledge snow soon southerly southward strait tent thick tide Toolemak Trinity Islands voyage walk warmth weather westward whales whole wind Winter Island winter passed yards young ice
Populaire passages
Pagina 277 - ... deer-skins, which are very numerous, can now be spread without risk of their touching the snow ; and such a bed is capable of affording not merely comfort, but luxurious repose, in spite of the rigor of the climate.
Pagina 172 - While Lieutenants Sherer and Ross, and myself, were admiring the extreme beauty of this phenomenon from the observatory, we all simultaneously uttered an exclamation of surprise at seeing a bright ray of the Aurora shoot suddenly downward from the general mass of light, and between us and the land, which was then distant only three thousand yards.
Pagina 282 - Esquimaux use two lumps of common iron pyrites, from which sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity of the white floss of the seed of the ground willow is laid above the moss. As soon as a spark has caught, it is gently blown till the fire has spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a piece of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process having...
Pagina 71 - It is certain indeed, that the quantity of meat which they procured between the 1st of October and the 1st of April, was sufficient to have furnished about double the population of working people, who were moderate eaters, and had any idea of providing for a future day : but to individuals who can demolish four or five pounds at a sitting, and at least ten in the course of a day, and who never bestow a thought on to-morrow, at least with the view to provide for it by economy, there is scarcely any...
Pagina 145 - from this time (says Parry) the obstructions from the quantity, magnitude, and closeness of the ice, were such. as to keep our people almost constantly employed in heaving, warping, or sawing through it ; and yet with so little success that, at the close of July, we had only penetrated seventy miles to the westward.
Pagina 168 - warming apparatus,' — ' a contrivance,' he says, ' of which I scarcely know how to express my admiration in adequate terms.' ' The alteration adopted on this voyage of placing this stove in the very bottom of the hold, produced not only the effect naturally to be expected from it, of increasing the rapidity of the current of warm air, and thus carrying it to all the officers' cabins with less loss of heat in its passage ; but was also accompanied by an advantage scarcely less important which had...
Pagina 275 - ... two passages, each from ten to twelve feet long, and from four to five feet in height, the lowest being that next the hut. The roofs of these passages are sometimes arched, but more generally made flat by slabs laid on horizontally ; in first digging the snow for building the hut...
Pagina 83 - ... that nine dogs of Captain Lyon's dragged sixteen hundred and eleven pounds a distance of seventeen hundred and fifty yards in nine minutes, and that they worked in a similar way between the ships for seven or eight hours a day. The road was, however, very good at this time, and the clogs the best that could be procured.
Pagina 273 - The work is commenced by cutting from a drift of hard and compact snow a number of oblong slabs, six or seven inches thick and about two feet in length, and laying them edgeways on a level spot, also covered with snow, in a circular form, and of a diameter from eight to fifteen feet, proportioned to the number of occupants the hut is to contain.
Pagina 278 - Innetat, is intended for the reception of any wet things, and is usually loaded with boots, shoes, and mittens. The fire-place just described as situated at the upper end of the apartment, has always two lamps facing different ways, one for each family occupying the corresponding bed-place. There is frequently also a smaller and less-pretending establishment on the same model — lamp, pot, net and all — in one of the corners next the door ; for one apartment sometimes contains three families,...