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Page 177
... Cape Sabine . I have decided to move to Sabine , abandoning our temporary winter quar- ters here . It is impossible for us to haul the ten to twelve thousand pounds of articles at Cape Sabine to this place as I could wish . Our chances ...
... Cape Sabine . I have decided to move to Sabine , abandoning our temporary winter quar- ters here . It is impossible for us to haul the ten to twelve thousand pounds of articles at Cape Sabine to this place as I could wish . Our chances ...
Page 178
... Cape Sabine as you turn into Buchanan Strait . There were 500 rations of bread , sleeping bags , tea , and a lot of canned goods ; no time to classify . This cache is about 30 feet from the water line and 12 feet above it on the west ...
... Cape Sabine as you turn into Buchanan Strait . There were 500 rations of bread , sleeping bags , tea , and a lot of canned goods ; no time to classify . This cache is about 30 feet from the water line and 12 feet above it on the west ...
Page 292
... Cape Sabine was but thirty miles away , but we had been forced so far north that we still had thirty miles before us to reach the Cape . We made only about three miles an hour . At noon we stopped and coffee was served from our ever ...
... Cape Sabine was but thirty miles away , but we had been forced so far north that we still had thirty miles before us to reach the Cape . We made only about three miles an hour . At noon we stopped and coffee was served from our ever ...
Contents
Foreword | 12 |
Elisha Kent Kane Arctic Explorations 185355 | 55 |
Index 351 | |
Copyright | |
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Ahwelah Anoatok arctic Axel Heiberg Island Baffin Bay Baffin Island bear began berg boat Brainard brig broken cache camp Cape Sabine Captain Hall carried coast cold Cook crew dark Davis Strait deck dogs drift Ellesmere Island Eskimos Esquimaux Etah expedition exploration feet floe Frederick frozen gale gave Greely Greenland hauled Herald Island hope hummocks hunting igloo journey Kane Karluk Kataktovick kayak Lancaster Sound land latitude Littleton Island live looked March McGary meat Metropolitan Toronto miles morning musk-ox Nansen night North Pole o'clock open water pack party Pavey Peary Peary's pemmican polar sea reach the Pole sail scurvy seal seemed ship shore side skin sledge sleds sleep Smith Sound snow soon Spitsbergen storm Strait supplies Sverdrup temperature tent things Thorgisl told took vessel voyage walrus weather whale wind winter Wrangell Island