The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World...Herman Dieck National Publishing Company, 1885 - 727 páginas |
Índice
| 7 | |
| 33 | |
| 44 | |
| 69 | |
| 80 | |
| 98 | |
| 114 | |
| 124 | |
| 334 | |
| 368 | |
| 379 | |
| 391 | |
| 404 | |
| 425 | |
| 446 | |
| 470 | |
| 149 | |
| 162 | |
| 187 | |
| 218 | |
| 234 | |
| 255 | |
| 303 | |
| 312 | |
| 500 | |
| 13 | |
| 39 | |
| 59 | |
| 80 | |
| 128 | |
| 147 | |
| 182 | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Marvelous Wonders of the Polar World: Being a Complete & Authentic ... Herman Dieck Visualização integral - 1885 |
The Marvelous Wonders of the Polar World ...: From the Narratives of Lieut ... Herman Dieck Visualização de excertos - 1885 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
anchor appeared Arctic arrived August Baffin Bay Baird Inlet Bear boat body Brainard Bulun cache camp canoe Cape Sabine Captain Cook Chipp coast command crew DeLong discovered discovery distance dogs drift east Esquimaux expedition exploration feet floe frozen gale Greely party Greely's Greenland Grinnell Land harbor Henry Herald Island icebergs Jeannette journey June Kane Kislingbury Lady Franklin Bay latitude Lieutenant Cook Lieutenant Greely Lieutenant Lockwood Littleton Island Loch Garry longitude Melville Melville Bay miles morning natives navigation night Nindemann northward Nova Zembla observations Ocean officers passed pemmican Polar Porpoise provisions reached relief rescue river sailed Schley scurvy seen sent September Sergeant ship shore side sight sledge sleds snow soon Sound southward station Strait tent Thetis tion Upernavik versts vessel Vincennes visited voyage weather whalers wind winter Yakut
Passagens conhecidas
Página 116 - Cook : he staggered a few paces, then fell on his hand and one knee, and dropped his musket. As he was rising, and before he could recover his feet, another Indian stabbed him in the back of the neck with an iron dagger. He then fell into a...
Página 87 - We had not been long at anchor before several canoes, filled with natives, came alongside of the ships ; but very few of them would venture on board ; which appeared the more extraordinary, as I was well known to them all. There was one man in particular...
Página 74 - This gentleman, however, besides landing in the Isle of Lepers, only made the discovery, that the country was not connected, but composed of islands, which he called the Great Cyclades.
Página 4 - One of our seamen sold his stock alone for eight hundred dollars ; and a few prime skins, which were clean, and had been well preserved, were sold for one hundred and twenty each. The whole amount of the •value, in specie and goods, that was got for the furs, in both ships, I am confident did not fall short of two thousand pounds sterling...
Página 4 - China ; the advantages that might be derived from a voyage to that part of the American coast, undertaken with commercial views, appear to me of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the public.
Página 114 - He then paused a little, and was on the point of giving his orders to reimbark, when a man threw a stone at him, which he returned with a discharge of small shot (with which one barrel of his double piece was loaded.) The man having a thick mat before him, received little or no hurt; he brandished his spear, and threatened to dart it at Captain Cook, who being still unwilling to take away his life, instead of firing with ball, knocked him down with his musket. He expostulated strongly with the most...
Página 97 - ... while the valleys between them and the grounds on the seacoast, high as well as low, were covered to a considerable breadth with high, straight trees, which formed a beautiful prospect, as of one vast forest.
Página 100 - When our navigators, on the 3d of August, had advanced to the latitude of 62° 34', a great loss was sustained by them in the death of Mr. Anderson, the surgeon of the Resolution, who had been lingering under a consumption for more than twelve months.
Página 65 - Archipelago. The smoothness of the sea sufficiently convinced our navigators, that they were surrounded by them, and that it was highly necessary to proceed with the utmost caution, especially in the night. Early in the morning, on the 15th of August, the ships came within sight of Osnaburg Island, or Maitea, which had been discovered by Captain Wallis. Soon after, Captain Cook acquainted Captain Furneaux, that it was his intention to put into Oaiti-piha Bay, near the south-east end of Otaheite,...
Página 85 - It was part of our commander's instructions to examine whether a good harbour might not here be found. As our voyagers, on the 24th, were steering to the eastward, a fog clearing up a little, which had involved them for some time, and which had rendered their navigation both tedious and dangerous, land was seen, bearing south-south-east. Upon a nearer approach, it was found to be an island of considerable height, and about three leagues in circuit. Another island, of the same magnitude, was soon...