Winter in the Arctic RegionsSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846 - 176 pàgines |
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amusement animal appearance Arctic Ocean AURORA BOREALIS became Captain Back Captain Lyon Captain Parry cheerfulness coast continued cracks crashing crew dark dogs drift drift ice Esquimaux expedition fire floating floe piece fore formed fresh frozen gale GEORGE BACK Greenland Hecla hole Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Strait hummocks immediately inches INTENSE COLD interval lamp land lanes of water Lieutenant Parry lower deck Mackenzie River masses of ice Melville Island miles NARWHAL navigation night occasion officers passage pieces of ice Polar navigation presented pressure quantity round rush sail scene scurvy seal SEAL HUNT seen ship ship's shore side Sir John Barrow sledge SNOW HUT snow-bunting solid sometimes soon starboard stern suddenly surface tain temperature Terror thawing thermometer thick thrown vapour vessel walls walrus warmth weather whalebone whole wind Winter Harbour young ice zero
Passatges populars
Pàgina 72 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Pàgina 85 - Greenwich, in the latitude of 74° 44' 20"; by which His Majesty's ships under my orders became entitled to the sum of five thousand pounds, being the reward offered by the King's order in council, grounded on a late Act of Parliament, to such of his Majesty's subjects as might succeed in penetrating thus far to the westward within the Arctic Circle.
Pàgina 64 - As the snow buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it has always been considered by us as the robin of these dreary wilds, and its lively chirp and fearless confidence have rendered it respected by the most hungry sportsmen. I could not on this occasion view its little nest, placed on the breast of infancy, without wishing that I possessed the power of poetically expressing the feelings it excited.
Pàgina 141 - ... and placed close to the wall stood at 23°, the temperature of the open air at the time being 25° below zero.
Pàgina 68 - Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg fixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the other, with the purchase of a long lever advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile, those who happened to be below, finding everything falling, rushed or clambered on deck, where they saw the ship on her beam ends, with the lee boats touching the water, and felt that a few moments...
Pàgina 19 - ... exhibited large masses of rock, apparently suspended in the air, at a considerable elevation above the actual termination of the mountains to which they referred. The whole exhibition was a grand phantasmagoria. Scarcely was any...
Pàgina 170 - ... its due share of our admiration and esteem. While thus their guest, I have passed an evening not only with comfort, but with extreme gratification; for, with the women working and singing, their husbands quietly mending their lines, the children playing before the door., and the pot boiling over the blaze of a cheerful lamp, one might well forget for the time that an Esquimaux hut was the scene of this domestic comfort and tranquillity ; and I can safely affirm with Cartwright that, while thus...
Pàgina 125 - I had the happiness of seeing every officer and man on board both ships (with only one exception out of ninety-four persons) return to their native country in as robust health as when they left it, after an absence of nearly eighteen months, during which time we had been living entirely on our own resources.
Pàgina 163 - ... in tight, and then cemented by throwing water to freeze upon it. The lower part of the runner is shod with a plate of harder bone, coated with freshwater ice to...
Pàgina 114 - ... in walking, against a very light air of wind, a smarting sensation was experienced all over the face, accompanied by a pain in the middle of the forehead, which soon became rather severe." In this cold air the breath of a person at a little distance looked exactly like the smoke of a musket just fired, and that of a party of men employed upon the ice resembled a thick white cloud. One effect of intense cold produced considerable surprise, and that was the distance at which sounds were heard in...