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 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 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 121 - I have ventured to call an open sea has been travelled for many miles along its coast, and was viewed from an elevation of five hundred and eighty feet, still without a limit, moved by a heavy swell, free of ice, and dashing in surf against a rockbound shore.
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 22 - ... through the haze which so frequently dims their brilliancy in the high latitudes, when suddenly a broad and clear bow of light spans the horizon in the direction where it is traversed by the magnetic meridian. This bow sometimes remains for several hours, heaving or waving to and fro, before it sends forth streams of light ascending to the zenith. Sometimes these flashes proceed from the bow of light alone ; at others they simultaneously shoot forth from many opposite parts of the horizon, and...