Sir John Franklin: die unternchmungen für seine rettung, und die nordwestliche durchfahrt |
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Adam Beck Admiralität amerikanischen Arctic arktischen auf's aufserordentlich August Ausrüstung Austin Baffins Barrow Beechey-Insel Befehlshaber Behrings Behrings-Strafse beiden Schiffe Bellot Canal Cap Riley Cap Walker Cap York Capt Collinson dafs Franklin daſs diefs Durchfahrt Eisberge Eisfeld Eismassen Eismeer England englischen Entdeckungen Erebus Erkundung ersten Eskimo Expedition Fahrt Fahrzeuge fast Franklin's Fufs Gefährten Geschwader glücklich Grinnell grofsen gröfsten Haven Henry Grinnell Hoffnungen höheren indefs Inglefield Insel Instruction irgend Jahre James Ross jetzt John Barrow John Ross Jones-Sund Kellett konnte Küste Lady Franklin Lancaster-Sund Land Leopoldshafen letzten lich Lieut M'Clintock M'Clure Mann Mannschaft Meilen Melville Melville-Insel mufste Nachrichten Nachsuchungen Norden Offiziere Ommanney Osborn Packeis Papers Parliam Parry Penny Penny's Plover Polarmeer Prince Albert Pullen Punkte Rettung Richardson Rückkehr schien Schlitten Septbr Sir John Franklin sollte Spuren der Vermissten Stand Strafse Sund Sutherland Tage Terror Theil Theilnahme unsere Unternehmen Vergl Vorräthe Walfischfahrer weiter Wellington Wellington-Canal wieder Winter Winteraufenthalt
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Page 260 - Report of the Committee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Inquire into the Report on the recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin ; together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee, and Papers connected with the subject.
Page 225 - I have never seen any animal in its natural state so perfectly fearless of man ; and there cannot be a more convincing proof that our missing countrymen have not been here. A ptarmigan alighted on the rock, and was shot, without in the least disturbing puss as she sat beneath it.'— Ibid.
Page 303 - April, M'Clure made up his despatches for the Admiralty; also a letter to Sir George Back, and one to his only sister,* in which he tells her how they "have added another laurel to old England's name and glory, and a memorable event to our dear little Queen's reign.
Page 175 - ... ships had been at anchor, and this conjecture was much borne out by the relative positions of the other traces found ; and besides this, a small cairn on the crest of Beechey Island appears to have been intended as a meridian mark, and, if so, Franklin's squadron undoubtedly lay where I would place it, far and effectually removed from all risk of being swept out of the bay, which, by the bye, from the fact of the enclosed area being many times broader than the entrance of " Erebus and Terror...
Page 268 - Bellot précédé d'une notice sur la vie et les travaux de l'auteur, par m. Julien Lemer.
Page 231 - ... Penny himself, traversing the channel from south to north, reached the islands which divide the strait into three narrow channels. From Point •Surprise, on the north of Baillie Hamilton island, he beheld a vast expanse of open water, and here, he tells us, ' the expression that escaped me was, " No one will ever reach Sir John Franklin; here we are, and no traces are to be found ;" so we returned to the sledges very much disappointed.
Page 34 - Islands, and he would no doubt endeavour to persuade Sir John Franklin to pursue the course mentioned, if they failed to the southward. This should be borne in mind in sending any searching expedition next year through Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound.
Page 102 - The pack this year extended at least 160 miles further south, than either uf the previous summers and I am therefore inclined to think that the „Enterprise" will be unable to make any considerable progress to the eastward this year.