Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, Volume 2S. C. Griggs, 1856 - Grinnell Expedition |
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Anoatok APPENDIX Arctic Asa Gray Attached Ther Barometer bear Bedevilled Reach bergs boats Bonsall brig broken Brooks cache Calm Cape Alexander CAPE JAMES Cape Sabine channel cliffs coast cold Corr cracks D. C. Prodr Disco dogs E. K. KANE eight encamped Esquimaux Etah expedition February feet Fiske Fiord floe frozen gale glacier Greenland halted headland Hook hummocks hundred hunt huts ice-foot icebergs inch journey June Kalutunah land land-ice latitude leaves Linn Littleton Island longitude March Marshall Bay McGary Mean Temp meat Melville Bay Melville Island Metek miles mometer morning Morton Myouk nearly Northumberland Island observations Ohlsen open water Parry's party pemmican Petersen Pursh's Fl Rensselaer Harbor rocks scurvy settlement shore sick silicles sledge Smith's Sound snow Sontag Sukkertoppen temperature Therm thermometer to-day Torr travelled Upernavik vessel walrus weather wind winter
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Page 354 - SIR : I have the honor respectfully to submit the following report of the part which my brigade took in the battle of the Cumberland on the 19th instant.
Page 287 - McGary hung upon his oar, and the boat, slowly but noiselessly sagging ahead, seemed to me within certain range. Looking at Petersen, I saw that the poor fellow was paralyzed by his anxiety, trying vainly to obtain a rest for his gun against the cutwater of the boat. The seal rose on his fore-flippers, gazed at us for a moment with frightened curiosity, and coiled himself for a plunge. At that instant, simultaneously with the crack of our rifle, he relaxed his long length on the ice, and, at the...
Page 287 - Hope to follow astern, and, trembling with anxiety, we prepared to crawl down upon him. Petersen, with the large English rifle, was stationed in the bow, and stockings were drawn over the oars as mufflers. As we neared the animal, our excitement became so intense that the men could hardly keep stroke. I had a set of signals for such occasions, which spared us the noise of the voice ; and when about three...
Page 148 - My note-book may enable me at some future day to develop its details. I have referred to this as the escaladed structure of the arctic glacier. The indication of a great propelling agency seemed to be just commencing at the time I was observing it. These splitoff lines of ice were evidently in motion, pressed on by those behind, but still widening their fissures, as if the impelling action was more and more energetic nearer the water, till at last they floated away in the form of icebergs. Long files...
Page 292 - Here we first got our cloudy vague idea of what had passed in the big world during our absence. The friction of its fierce rotation had not much disturbed this little outpost of civilization, and we thought it a sort of blunder as he told us that France and England were leagued with the Mussulman against the Greek Church.
Page 248 - Arm,' and Amaunalik his wife; and Sip-su, and Marsumah and Aningnah — and who not? I can name them every one, and they know us as well. We have found brothers in a strange land. "Each one has a knife, or a file, or a saw, or some such treasured keepsake; and the children have a lump of soap, the greatest of all great medicines. The ' BABY SLEDGES. merry little urchins break in upon me even now as lam writing: — 'Kuyanake, kuyanake, Nalegak-soak !' 'Thank you, thank you, big chief!
Page 325 - To avoid further risk of human life, in a search so extremely hazardous, I would suggest the impropriety of making any efforts to relieve us if we should not return ; feeling confident that we shall be able to accomplish all necessary for our own release, under the most extraordinary circumstances.
Page 150 - I was struck with the homely analogy of the batter-cake spreading itself out under the ladle of the housewife, the upper surface less affected by friction, and rolling forward in consequence. The crevasses bore the marks of direct fracture and the more gradual action of surface-drainage. The extensive water-shed between their converging planes gave to the icy surface most of the hydrographic features of a river-system. The ice-born rivers which divided them were margined occasionally with spires...
Page 287 - ... this day I can remember the hard, careworn, almost despairing expression of the men's thin faces as they saw him move; their lives depended on his capture. I depressed my hand nervously, as a signal for Petersen to fire.
Page 81 - These shelves, though sometimes merged into each other, presented distinct and recognisable embankments or escarps of elevation. Their surfaces were at a nearly uniform inclination of descent of 5°, and their breadth either 12, 24, 36, or some other multiple of twelve paces. This imposing series of ledges carried you in forty-one gigantic steps to an elevation of 480 feet...