The Voyage of the Constance: A Tale of the Polar SeasSampson Low, Son & Company, 1860 - 344 páginas |
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Aberdeen Arctic Arctic seas ashore asked Margaret Baffin's Bay bear bear-skins Beechey Island began berg bird boat Captain Armstrong Captain James Captain Ross cheer coast cold Constance crew dear deck dogs Esquimaux eyes face father feet followed Franklin Greely Greenland hand harbour head heard hope hour Hugh Armstrong Island John journey knew Lancaster Sound land Launcy looked M'Clure Maggie Martin Frobisher Master Edward Melville Melville Island Melville Peninsula miles minutes morning mother narwhales never night North Somerset north-west passage Olaf papa Parry party Peter pigeon poor rest returned rock round sailed sailors seemed ship shore shouted sight Sir Hugh Sir James Ross sledge snow soon stood Strait tell tent thing thought told took Trident Upernavik voyage walk walrus Wellington Channel wind winter words
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Página 9 - As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 268 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 280 - He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who can stand before his cold ? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them : he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Página 9 - Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. # All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart...
Página 279 - O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon His name : Make known His deeds among the people. Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him : Talk ye of all His wondrous works.
Página 47 - I made known to the party this gratifying result of all our joint labors; and it was then that, amidst mutual congratulations, we fixed the BRITISH FLAG ON THE SPOT, and took possession of the North Magnetic Pole and its adjoining territory in the name of Great Britain and King William IV. We had abundance of materials for building in the fragments of limestone that covered the beach, and we therefore erected a cairn of some magnitude, under which we buried a canister containing a record of the interesting...
Página 44 - We could have wished that a place so important had possessed more of mark or note. It was scarcely censurable to regret that there was not a mountain to indicate a spot to which so much interest must ever be attached ; and I could even have pardoned any one among us who had been so romantic or absurd as to expect that the magnetic pole was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it was even a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc.
Página 328 - This paper was dated April 25th, 1848, and on the following day they intended to start for the Great Fish River. The total loss by deaths in the expedition up to this date was nine officers and fifteen men. A vast quantity of clothing and stores of all sorts lay strewed about, as if here every article was thrown away which could possibly be dispensed with : pickaxes, shovels, boats, cooking utensils, ironwork, rope, blocks, canvas, a dip circle, a sextant engraved "Frederic Hornby, R«.N.," a small...
Página 329 - ... after part of the boat, under a pile of clothing ; the other, which was much more disturbed, probably by animals, was found in the bow. Five pocket watches, a quantity of silver spoons and forks, and a few religious books were also found, but no journals, pocket-books, or even names upon any articles of clothing. Two double-barrelled guns stood upright against the boat's side precisely as they had been placed eleven years before. One barrel in each was loaded and cocked.
Página 47 - as I had satisfied my own mind on the subject, I made known to the party this gratifying result of all our joint labors; and it was then that, amidst mutual congratulations, we fixed the British flag on the spot, and took possession of the North Magnetic Pole and its adjoining territory in the name of Great Britain and King William IV.