The Story of Exploration and Adventure in the Frozen SeasHenry Altemus Company, 1896 - 256 sivua The history of the exploration of the Arctic regions, from Cabot in the 1490s to Peary and Nansen in the 1890s, by people from Europe and North America. |
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abandoned adventure Andree Arctic Ocean August Baffin's Bay balloon Barentz bear Beechey Island Behring's Straits boats Cape Cape Constitution Cape Sabine Captain coast of Greenland cold command covered crew crossed darkness discovered discovery drifted England Esquimaux expedition explorer farther feet Fiord floe Franklin Franz Josef Land frozen Glacier Greely Greenland coast Grinnell Land Gulf Harbor hope Hudson's hummocks Inlet July June Kane Kane's Kara Sea Lake Hazen Lancaster Sound Lancaster Strait latitude Lena Lieutenant Lockwood McClintock Melville miles months mountains Nansen Nordenskiold North Pole North-east Passage northern northward Nova Zembla October open sea open water Parry passed Peary pedition Polar Sea provisions reached regions returned River Ross round sailed scurvy September ship shore Siberia Siberian Islands side sight sledge journey Smith's Sound snow Spitzbergen summer temperature tion traveling Upernavik Vega vessel voyage Wellington Channel westward wind winter winter-quarters
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Sivu 104 - W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77°, and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consisting of 2 officers and 6 men left the ships on Monday 24th May, 1847.
Sivu 68 - Franklin, but no words can convey an idea of the filth and wretchedness that met our eyes on looking around. Our own misery had stolen upon us by degrees and we were accustomed to the contemplation of each other's emaciated figures, but the ghastly countenances, dilated eyeballs, and sepulchral voices of Captain Franklin and those with him were more than we could at first bear.
Sivu 151 - I am the Resurrection, and the Life : he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in
Sivu 121 - Polar basin," but fifteen miles off' from the ice which arrested our progress the next year. All these illusory discoveries were no doubt chronicled with perfect integrity ; and it may seem to others, as since I have left the field it sometimes does to myself, that my own, though on a larger scale, may one day pass within the same category.
Sivu 114 - But this line of cliff rose in a solid, glassy wall 300 feet above the water-level, with an unknown, unfathomable depth below it; and its curved face, sixty miles in length from Cape Agassiz to Cape Forbes, vanished into unknown space at not more than a single day's railroad travel from the pole.
Sivu 128 - 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 very brink of the water, his head fell helpless to one side.
Sivu 126 - The coffee and the meat-biscuit soup, and the molasses and the wheat bread, even the salt pork which our scurvy forbade the rest of us to touch, — how they relished it all! For more than two months they had lived on frozen seal and walrus-meat.
Sivu 102 - She said many of the white men dropped by the way as they went to the Great River ; that some were buried and some were not ; they did not themselves witness this, but discovered their bodies during the winter following.
Sivu 120 - It must have been an imposing sight, as he stood at this termination of his journey, looking out upon the great waste of waters before him. Not a "speck of ice," to use his own words, could be seen. There, from a height of four hundred and eighty feet, which commanded a horizon of almost forty miles, his ears were gladdened with the novel music of dashing waves; and a surf, breaking in among the rocks at his feet, stayed his farther progress.
Sivu 121 - It is impossible, in reviewing the facts which connect themselves with this discovery, — the melted snow upon the rocks, the crowds of marine birds, the limited but still advancing vegetable life, the rise of the thermometer in the water, — not to be struck with their bearing on the question of a milder climate near the Pole.