Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1821-22-23,in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of the ExpeditionE.Duyckinck, G.Long, Collins & Company, Collins & Hannay, W.B.Gilley, and H.I.Megarey, 1824 - 464 pagina's |
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Amherst Island animal appeared boat breeze Captain Lyon Capuchin friars clear close coast Cockburn Island colour considerable continued course deer deer-skin direction distance dogs dovekies drift eastward Esquimaux extremely fathoms favourable feet five floe formed four fresh cloudy Fury gneiss hair half Hecla hundred huts Igloolik Iligliuk inches inlet jackets journey Kabloonas land latitude length light cloudy light hazy long-tailed ducks loose lying means Melville Island Melville Peninsula meridian altitude miles morning night noon northward NW light NW modt observed occasion Okotook open water party passage piece present quarter remarkable Repulse Bay rocks round sail scarcely seal seemed seen ships shoal shore side skin sledge snow soon Southampton Island southward Strait stream temperature tent thermometer thick tide tion usual walk walrus weather westward whole wind Winter Island women young ice
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Pagina 129 - But the most curious precaution to the same effect consists in tying his own knees together, with a thong, so securely as to prevent, any rustling of his clothes, which might otherwise alarm the animal. In this situation a man will sit quietly sometimes for hours together, attentively listening to any noise made by the seal.
Pagina 401 - ... the lash is chewed by the women, to make it flexible in frosty weather. The men acquire from their youth considerable expertness in the use of this whip, the lash of which is left to trail along the ground by the side of the sledge, and with which they can inflict a very severe blow on any dog at pleasure.
Pagina 121 - ... spot for the whole winter. If the first view of the exterior of this little village was such as to create astonishment, that feeling was in no small degree heightened, on accepting the invitation soon given us, to enter these extraordinary houses, in the construction of which we observed that not a single material was used but snow and ice.
Pagina 401 - ... to the right or left. To these a good leader attends with admirable precision, especially if his own name be repeated at the same time, looking behind over his shoulder with great earnestness, as if listening to the directions of the driver. On a beaten track, or even where a single foot or...
Pagina 390 - 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 401 - ... his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small and the journey homeward, the dogs are not to be thus delayed ; the driver is therefore obliged to dig his heels into the snow to obstruct their progress ; and having thus succeeded in stopping them, he stands up with one leg before the foremost cross-piece of the sledge, till, by means of laying the whip gently over each dog's head, he has made them all lie down. He then takes care not to quit his position; so that should the dogs set off he...
Pagina 155 - ... them. Here they obtained blubber enough to set all their lamps alight, besides a few scraps of meat for their children and themselves. From this time, which was nine o'clock, till past midnight, fresh cargoes were continually arriving ; the principal part being brought in by the dogs, and the rest by the men, who, tying the thong which held it round their waist, dragged in each his separate portion.
Pagina 407 - ... its due share of our admiration and esteem. While thus their guest, I have passed an evening not only with comfort, but with extreme gratification ; for with the women working and singing, their husbands quietly mending their lines, the children playing before the door, and the pot boiling over the blaze of a cheerful lamp...
Pagina 154 - The remaining tenants of each hut had combined to occupy one of the apartments ; a great part of the bed-places were still bare, and the wind and drift blowing in through the holes which they had not yet taken the trouble to stop up. The old man Hikkeiera and his wife occupied a hut by themselves, without any lamp, or a single ounce of meat belonging to them ; while three small skins, on which the former was lying, were all that they possessed in the way of blankets. Upon the whole, I never beheld...
Pagina 388 - Their 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 rigour of the climate.