The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His CompanionsTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 375 pagina's The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic Seas. |
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Pagina 158 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!
Pagina 258 - June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date nine officers and fifteen men. (Signed) (Signed) " ' FRM CBOZIBB, " • JAMES FITZJAMIS, " ' Captain and Senior Officer. " ' Captain HMS Erebus. " ' and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River.
Pagina xviii - The Aberdeen whaler braves the icy regions of the Polar Sea, to seek and to battle with the great monster of the deep : he has materially assisted in opening these icebound regions to the researches of Science ; he fearlessly aided in the search after Sir John Franklin and his gallant companions, whom their country sent forth on this mission, but...
Pagina 259 - of Graham Gore ! The spring of 1847 found them within 90 miles of the known sea off the coast of America ; and to men who had already, in two seasons, sailed over 500 miles of previously unexplored waters, how confident must they then have felt that that forthcoming navigable season of 1847 would see their ships pass over so short an intervening space ! It was ruled otherwise. Within a month after Lieutenant Gore placed the record on Point Victory, the much-loved leader of the expedition, Sir John...
Pagina 363 - ... limestone, casts of fossil shells abound. Inland of these, the ordinary pale carboniferous sandstone and cherty limestone reappeared. The fossils are all small, and of only a few varieties, some being ammonites, but the greater part bivalves.
Pagina 12 - I have no temptation to do so, since it appears to me that your views are almost identical with those which I had independently formed before I had the advantage of being thoroughly possessed of yours. But had this been otherwise, I trust you would have found me ready to prove the implicit confidence I place in you by yielding my own...
Pagina 361 - Devonian period. 4th. The same blending of corals has been found in Ireland, the Bas Boulonnais, and in Devonshire, where Silurian and Carboniferous forms are of common occurrence in the same localities. 5th. In the Carboniferous beds proper of Melville Island, and Bathurst Island, there were not found, so far as I am aware, any corals of the same character as those at Griffith's Island...
Pagina 270 - Taking this view of the case, we can understand why their provisions would not last them for anything like the distance they required to travel ; and why they would be obliged to send back to the ships for more, first taking from the detached party all provisions they could possibly spare. Whether all or any of the remainder of this detached party ever reached their ships is uncertain ; all we know is, that they did not revisit the boat, and which accounts for the absence of more skeletons in its...
Pagina 12 - ... effort ; and you must therefore let me tell you how much dearer to me even than any of them is the preservation of the valuable lives of the little band of heroes who are your companions and followers. " May God in his great mercy preserve you all from harm amidst the labors and perils which await you, and restore you to us in health and safety, as well as honor ! As to the honor I can have no misgiving.
Pagina 256 - In the first place, the record paper was one of the printed forms usually supplied to discovery ships for the purpose of being enclosed in bottles and thrown overboard at sea, in order to ascertain the set of the currents, blanks being left for the date and position ; any person finding one of these records is requested to forward it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, with a note of time and place ; and this request is printed upon it in six different languages. Upon it was written, apparently by...