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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... sea card , made by his own experience and travel in that voyage , wherein was plainly set- down and described this ... South Seas , round America ; many years after this he took holy orders , and , residing in New Spain , was applied to ...
... sea card , made by his own experience and travel in that voyage , wherein was plainly set- down and described this ... South Seas , round America ; many years after this he took holy orders , and , residing in New Spain , was applied to ...
Side 82
... south - west till he got sight of Labrador , along the coast of which he ... sea . After this he entered a strait in lat . 63 ° 8 ' . This strait , to ... sea afarre off , which the captain supposed to be porposes or seales , or some kind ...
... south - west till he got sight of Labrador , along the coast of which he ... sea . After this he entered a strait in lat . 63 ° 8 ' . This strait , to ... sea afarre off , which the captain supposed to be porposes or seales , or some kind ...
Side 94
... south - east of Friesland , in latitude 57 ° , which had never before been ... sea does not freeze , but that the ice originates in rivers , bays , and ... sea * Hakluyt's Voyages , vol . iii . p . 39 . between Greenland and the ...
... south - east of Friesland , in latitude 57 ° , which had never before been ... sea does not freeze , but that the ice originates in rivers , bays , and ... sea * Hakluyt's Voyages , vol . iii . p . 39 . between Greenland and the ...
Side 108
... sea altogether free from ice . Here they anchored their barks , " in a very ... south Cape Walsingham ; and to the great bay between them they gave the name ... south- ward , and on the 11th , came to the next southerly cape of the land ...
... sea altogether free from ice . Here they anchored their barks , " in a very ... south Cape Walsingham ; and to the great bay between them they gave the name ... south- ward , and on the 11th , came to the next southerly cape of the land ...
Side 112
... south they fell in with land north - west from them , being a fair promontory in lat . 65 ° , having no land on the south ... sea passing between two lands west . " On this part of the coast of Labrador two of their men were slain by the ...
... south they fell in with land north - west from them , being a fair promontory in lat . 65 ° , having no land on the south ... sea passing between two lands west . " On this part of the coast of Labrador two of their men were slain by the ...
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A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ... Sir John Barrow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1818 |
A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ... Sir John Barrow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1818 |
A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ... John Barrow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1818 |
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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.