The Search for Franklin: A Narrative of the American Expedition Under Lieutenant Schwatka, 1878 to 1880Nelson, 1882 - Počet stran: 127 |
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abandoned Adelaide Peninsula adventurers Ahlangyah appeared Arctic exploration Back River Beechey Island Behring Strait boat place bones cairn Camp Daly Cape Felix Cape Walker Captain Crozier clothing coast cold Corwin crews CROZIER RECORD Depot Island discovered discovery distance dogs Equeesik Erebus and Terror Erebus Bay erected Eskimo feet Fish River five four frozen Gilder Grant Point grave head Hudson Bay hundred hunter hunting igloo Inlet Innuits John Irving KAYAKS killed King William Land Lieutenant Irving LIEUTENANT IRVING'S Lieutenant Schwatka M'Clintock mainland Marble Island miles natives neighbourhood Netchellik Ooquusik-Sillik perished Polar pounds probably R. M. BALLANTYNE reached reindeer relics says Schwatka's party seal ship shore Simpson Strait Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin skele skeletons skin Sledge Journeys snow spear spot spring stones story summer tent tin box tion Toolooah vessel visited voyagers walrus Whale wolves
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Strana 57 - Terror" and "Erebus" were deserted on the 22nd April, 5 leagues NNW of this, having been beset since 12th September, 1846. The officers and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain FRM Crozier, landed here in lat. 69° 37' 42
Strana 56 - 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.
Strana 57 - Irving under the cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831 4 miles to the northward where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in June 1847. Sir James...
Strana 57 - June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men. (Signed) James Fitzjames, Captain HMS Erebus. (Signed) FRM Crozier, Captain and Senior Officer. and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River.
Strana 56 - N., long. 98° 23' W. Having wintered in 1846-7 at Beechey Island, in lat. 74° 43' 28" N., long. 90° 39' 15" 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...
Strana 56 - Terror wintered in the ice in lat. 70° 05' N., long. 98° 23' W., having wintered at Beechy Island, in lat. 74° 43' 28" N., long. 91° 39' 15' ' 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. A party of two officers and six men left the ships on Monday, the 24th May. GRAHAM GORE. CHARLES F.
Strana 14 - Thus it passes away into the centre of the Greenland continent, which is occupied by one deep unbroken sea of ice, twelve hundred miles in length, that receives a perpetual increase from the water-shed of vast snow-mantled mountains. A frozen sea, yet a sea in constant motion, rolling onward slowly, laboriously, but surely, to find an outlet at each fiord or valley, and to load the seas of Greenland and the Atlantic with mighty icebergs, until, having attained the northern limit of the land it overwhelms,...
Strana 31 - ... now about sixty-five or seventy. He was fishing on Back's River when they came along in a boat and shook hands with him. There were ten men. The leader was called " Tos-ard-e-roak," which Joe says, from the sound, he thinks means Lieutenant Back. The next white man he saw was dead in a bunk of a big ship which was frozen in the ice near an island about five miles due west of Grant Point, on Adelaide Peninsula.