 | 1847 - 610 sider
...ceeding three times her own breadth ; this, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minintes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...moment we were in smooth water under its lee. " The Terror's light was immediately seen and answered : she had rounded-to, waiting for us, and the painful... | |
 | 1847 - 640 sider
...exceeding three times her own breadth ; this, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...moment we were in smooth water under its lee. " The Terror's light was immediately seen and answered ; she had rounded-to, waiting for us, and the painful... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 sider
...breadth ; this, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting before the w ind, she dashed through the narrow channel, between two...perpendicular walls of ice, and the foaming breakers breakers which stretched across it, and the next moment we were in smooth water under its lee. 'The... | |
 | 1848 - 530 sider
...exceeding three times her own_ breadth. ТЫэ, however, we happily accomplished, and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...moment we were in smooth water, under its lee. The Terror had escaped from this disaster with the loss only of two or three more spars, and was found... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 sider
...exceeding three times her own breadth. This, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...the next moment we were in smooth water under its Ice." The Terror's signal light was immediately seen and answered, thus relieving the anxiety of her... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sider
...exceeding three times her own breadth. This, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...foaming breakers which stretched across it, and the nest moment we were in smooth water under its lee.' One of the objects of this cruise was to visit,... | |
 | World - 1852 - 588 sider
...own Deliverance breadth. This, however, we happily accomplished ; from danger. and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...next moment we were in smooth water under its lee." A dense range of icebergs was now seen to windward, so that the small opening by which the ships were... | |
 | 1856 - 580 sider
...exceeding three times her own breadth. This, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting before the wind, she dashed through...next moment we were in smooth water under its lee.' One of the objects of this cruise was to visit, if possible, the focus of greater magnetic intensity... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1862 - 284 sider
...times her own breadth. This, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes after getting through the narrow channel, between two perpendicular...next moment we were in smooth water under its lee." In addition to all these sources of danger, there is, in lower latitudes, that attending the final... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 sider
...however, was happily accomplished, and in a few minutes after, getting before the wind, away she flew through the narrow channel, between two perpendicular...breakers which stretched across it, and the next moment was in smooth water under the iceberg's lee. We have alluded to the fantastic shapes assumed by these... | |
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... astern of us, against which we were running ; and the difficulty now was to get the ship's head turned round and pointed fairly through between the two bergs, the breadth .of the intervening space not exceeding three times her own breadth ; this,... 
