The Arctic regions. To which is added, the recovery of the Resolute. With an account of the new British expedition |
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الصفحة 53 - An Act for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the North Pole.
الصفحة 251 - Doot-ko-hi-calik), as its description, and that of the low shore in the neighbourhood of Point Ogle and Montreal Island, agree exactly with that of Sir George Back.* Some of the bodies...
الصفحة 40 - Previous to setting out the whole party ate the remains of their old shoes and whatever scraps of leather they had to strengthen their stomachs for the fatigue of the day's journey.
الصفحة 227 - ... the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.
الصفحة 251 - From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence.
الصفحة 151 - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
الصفحة 279 - Ross's pillar has not however been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position, which is that in which Sir J.
الصفحة 47 - Had my own life alone been threatened, I would not have purchased it by such a measure ; but I considered myself as intrusted also with the protection of Hepburn's, a man, who, by his humane attentions and devotedness, had so endeared himself to me, that I felt more anxiety for his safety than for my own.
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| العنوان | The Arctic regions. To which is added, the recovery of the Resolute. With an account of the new British expedition |
| المؤلف | Peter Lund Simmonds |
| الإصدار | 10 |
| منشور | 1875 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 29 حزيران (يونيو) 2006 |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |