A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-west Passage: With Numerous Incidents of Travel and Adventure During Nearly Five Years' Continuous Service in the Arctic Regions While in Search of the Expedition Under Sir John Franklin |
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advance afforded amongst anchor animals appearance approach Arctic arrival aspect baidars Baring Island beach became birds boat breeze Cape Cape Crozier Cape Lisburne Captain McClure character cheering circumstances close coast cold commenced continued course crew dark deck degree distance Ditto drifted eastward effects enabled Esquimaux evidence existed Expedition fathoms favourable feet floe formed fresh frozen gale Gorgon grounded halsers heavy hope inches journey land less light loose ice Mackenzie River Melville Island miles distant morning Musk Ox night noon north-east north-west northward numerous observed officers open water pack packed ice party pieces Polar Sea position presented Prince of Wales Princess Royal Islands proceeded progress Ptarmigan reached Reindeer remained safety sail scorbutic Scurvy season seen ship ship's shore shot side sledge snow soon southward storm birds Strait subsequently surface temperature voyage weather westward wind winter yards
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Page 396 - fathoms high, and consist of horizontal strata of sandstone, alternating with strata of bituminous beams or trunks of trees. On ascending these hills, fossilized charcoal is everywhere met with, covered apparently with ashes, but on closer examination, this ash is also found to be a petrifaction, and so hard, that it can
Page 281 - fire until its moisture was entirely dissipated, and the fibre of the meat became friable ; it was then ground in a malt-mill, when it resembled finely-grated meat; being next mixed with nearly an equal weight of melted beef suet or lard, the preparation of plain pemmican was
Page 396 - be scraped off with a knife. On the summit, another curiosity is found, namely, a long row of beams, resembling the former, but fixed perpendicularly in the sandstone. The ends, which project from seven to ten inches, are, for the greater
Page 99 - a vertical line about half an inch broad in the centre, extending from the lip, with a parallel but narrower one on either side of it, a little apart. Some had two vertical lines protruding from either angle of the mouth ; which is a mark of their high position in the tribe.
Page 407 - in blubber, forming a round ball. It is then placed in the open air at a low temperature, where it soon becomes hard and frozen. The natives armed with their knives, bows and arrows, together with this frozen bait, proceed in quest of
Page 473 - constant inhabitants. I have remarked, however, that as the season of thaw sets in (May and June,) coeval with the calving of the Does, these, generally resort to the ravines and valleys bordering the coast, where the pasturage is so much more abundant.
Page 75 - other, when in company. Our expedition, from the period of leaving England, was not a combined expedition, as may be seen from the foregoing pages, although the Admiralty orders admitted of but one interpretation on the subject, which ran as follows:—" We deem it right to caution you against suffering the two vessels placed under your orders to separate, except in the event of accident or unavoidable necessity.
Page 75 - caution you against suffering the two vessels placed under your orders to separate, except in the event of accident or unavoidable necessity." Notwithstanding the positive nature of these orders,
Page 472 - It has hitherto been the generally received opinion, that these animals migrate to the southward on the approach of winter, to lands where the cold is less intense, and the pasturage more
Page 392 - The ends of trunks and branches of trees were seen protruding through the rich loamy soil in which they were embedded. On excavating to some extent,