Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-west PassageG. Philip & Sons, 1891 - 324 pages |
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accomplished Admiralty appointed Arctic arrival August Australia Baffin's Bay Beechey Island Bering's Strait beset boat Cape Cape Walker Captain Cook Captain Flinders Captain Franklin carried coast-line companions Coppermine River crew despatched direction discovered discovery endeavour Enterprise Erebus and Terror Eskimos event exploration fate Franz Josef Land further gallant geographical harbour hope Hudson's Bay John Barrow journey June King William Island Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound land Lieutenant longitude M'Clintock Melville miles months named navigator navy neighbourhood North Pole north-west passage northern northward object obtained officers pack Parry passed Port Jackson position Prince Prince Regent Inlet provisions push reached return to England Richardson ship shore Sir Edward Parry Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin sledging parties southward Spilsby Spitzbergen squadron subsequently succeeded successful survey tion travelling vessels voyage Wellington Channel westward winter quarters wreck young
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Page 122 - O THE long and dreary Winter ! O the cold and cruel Winter ! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village.
Page 225 - 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.
Page 77 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 101 - Each person instinctively secured his own hold and, with his eyes fixed upon the masts, awaited in breathless anxiety the moment of concussion. It soon arrived ; the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with, the main body. In an instant we all lost our footing, the masts bent with the impetus, and the cracking timbers from below bespoke a pressure which was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions.
Page 145 - We now, therefore, witnessed, for the first time, the curious phenomenon of the directive power of the needle becoming so weak as to be completely overcome by the attraction of the ship ; so that the needle might now be properly said to point to the north pole of the ship.
Page 92 - The snow fell in heavy showers, and several tons weight of ice accumulated about the sides of the brig (the Trent), and formed a complete casing to the planks, which received an additional layer at each plunge of the vessel. So great, indeed, was the accumulation about the bows, that we were obliged to cut it away repeatedly with axes to relieve the bowsprit from the enormous weight that was attached to it ; and the ropes were so thickly covered with ice, that it was necessary to beat them with large...
Page 225 - September, 1846. The officers and crews, consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain FRM Crozier, landed here in lat. 69° 37' 42
Page 130 - To skin and cut up the animal was the work of a few minutes. The contents of its stomach were devoured upon the spot, and the raw intestines, which were next attacked, were pronounced by the most delicate amongst us to be excellent.
Page 284 - For thousands of years this land had lain buried from the knowledge of men, and now its discovery had fallen into the lap of a small band, themselves almost lost to the world...
Page 201 - ... latitude, and 98 !W. longitude. Thence he was to use his utmost endeavors, by working to the southward and westward, to push on in as direct a line as possible toward Bering's Strait; but much was left to his own discretion, and he was to be guided by any circumstances that might incidentally arise. All the arrangements being completed, the expedition sailed from England on the...