A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-east, North-west, Or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific ...Murray, 1818 - 427 sider |
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... Hudson , being beset with ice , and almost despairing whether he should ever get free from it , brought out his card and shewed the ship's company that he had entered the strait above a hundred leagues farther than any English- man had ...
... Hudson , being beset with ice , and almost despairing whether he should ever get free from it , brought out his card and shewed the ship's company that he had entered the strait above a hundred leagues farther than any English- man had ...
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... Hudson's Bay , and discovered Nelson's River , which has long been the principal settlement of the Hudson's Bay Company . He was strongly possessed with the idea of the existence of a north - west pas- sage ; and he told Mr. Briggs ...
... Hudson's Bay , and discovered Nelson's River , which has long been the principal settlement of the Hudson's Bay Company . He was strongly possessed with the idea of the existence of a north - west pas- sage ; and he told Mr. Briggs ...
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... Hudson's Strait before he fell in with the ice , which came down in such ... bay lying in about 57 ° , in which he remained nearly five months , com- pletely blocked up by the ice . To this spot his ship's company ... bay in which he was thus ...
... Hudson's Strait before he fell in with the ice , which came down in such ... bay lying in about 57 ° , in which he remained nearly five months , com- pletely blocked up by the ice . To this spot his ship's company ... bay in which he was thus ...
Side 260
... Hudson's Bay , together with all the trade thereof , and all others which they should acquire , & c . This ex- traordinary charter , with its sweeping privileges , has continued to be vested to this day in the Hud- son's Bay Company ...
... Hudson's Bay , together with all the trade thereof , and all others which they should acquire , & c . This ex- traordinary charter , with its sweeping privileges , has continued to be vested to this day in the Hud- son's Bay Company ...
Side 261
... Hudson's Bay Company . JOHN WOOD AND WILLIAM FLAWES . 1676 . The question of a north - eastern passage to China had been set at rest in England for more than a century , when it was once more revived by the appearance of a paper in the ...
... Hudson's Bay Company . JOHN WOOD AND WILLIAM FLAWES . 1676 . The question of a north - eastern passage to China had been set at rest in England for more than a century , when it was once more revived by the appearance of a paper in the ...
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appeared arrived attempt August Baffin Barentz boat called Cape Farewell Captain Cherry Island coast of America coast of Greenland cold command Company continued Cortereal covered crew degrees discovered discovery distance Dobbs Dutch east eastward England English enterprize expedition farther fell fish Frisland frozen gave the name Greenland Hakluyt harbour hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Hugh Willoughby hundred Iceland Indians inlet July June King land latitude leagues Lieutenant longitude masses of ice master miles mountains mouth natives navigation Newfoundland night North Pole north-east north-west passage northern northward Nova Zembla observed passed pilot pinnace Portugueze proceeded Purchas reached river Samuel Hearne says set sail ships shore side sledges Snæfell snow Sound southward Spain Spitzbergen stood strait supposed Thomas Button tide tons vessels voyage ward weather westward whales wigwams William Baffin wind winter Zichmni
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Side 103 - Besides, for solace of our people, and allurement of the savages, we were provided of music in good variety; not omitting the least toys, as morrisdancers, hobby-horse, and May-like conceits to delight the savage people, whom we intended to win by all fair means possible.
Side 314 - An Act for giving a public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea . within One Degree of the Northern Pole...
Side 215 - ... of the world known; for by divers good observations I found it to be above five points, or fifty-six degrees varied to the westward.
Side 134 - ... and very much broader sea than was at the said entrance, and that he passed by divers islands in that sailing; and that at the entrance of this said strait, there is, on the northwest coast thereof, a great headland or island, with an exceeding high pinnacle, or spired rock, like a pillar thereupon.
Side 92 - I carried away from hence the last year is dead in England. Moreover, you may declare unto them, that if they deliver you not, I will not leave a man alive in their country.
Side 155 - ... in wine : and so supposing that we were in our owne country and amongst our friends, it comforted us as well as if we had made a great banket in our owne house...
Side 299 - ... either all feasting, or all famine ; sometimes we had too much, seldom just enough, frequently too little, and often none at all. It will be only necessary to say that we have fasted many times two whole days and nights ; twice upwards of three days ; and once, while at She-than-nee, near seven days, during which we tasted not a mouthful of anything, except a few cranberries, water, scraps of old leather, and burnt bones.
Side 120 - ... of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best course to retourne with notice of our good successe for this small time of search. And so retourning in a sharpe fret of Westerly windes the 29- of September we arived at Dartmouth.