Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign: Of Their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures, and Services, in the Infant State of the British NavyJ. Murray, 1845 - 495 pages |
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Page 53
... proceeded , as before , along the western coast of Greenland , in several parts of which he had much intercourse with the natives , coming off sometimes in groups of canoes , amounting to a hundred , forty , fifty at a time , more or ...
... proceeded , as before , along the western coast of Greenland , in several parts of which he had much intercourse with the natives , coming off sometimes in groups of canoes , amounting to a hundred , forty , fifty at a time , more or ...
Page 54
... to bestow on him their bitter curses . As these complaints came from the Exeter ship , the Mermaid , he left her where she was , to return homewards , while he alone , in the Moonshine , proceeded round the ice 51 DAVIS .
... to bestow on him their bitter curses . As these complaints came from the Exeter ship , the Mermaid , he left her where she was , to return homewards , while he alone , in the Moonshine , proceeded round the ice 51 DAVIS .
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... proceeded round the ice , and found the land in lat . 66 ° 33 ' , long . 70 ° , * 66 voyd of trouble , without snow or ice . " Here it consisted of a group of islands - no doubt the whale islands to the southward of Disco , a portion of ...
... proceeded round the ice , and found the land in lat . 66 ° 33 ' , long . 70 ° , * 66 voyd of trouble , without snow or ice . " Here it consisted of a group of islands - no doubt the whale islands to the southward of Disco , a portion of ...
Page 56
... proceeded northerly till the 3rd of July , when getting between two islands of fixed ice , they were but too glad to escape ; and coasting Greenland southerly along the ice some three leagues from the shore , they arrived on the 17th at ...
... proceeded northerly till the 3rd of July , when getting between two islands of fixed ice , they were but too glad to escape ; and coasting Greenland southerly along the ice some three leagues from the shore , they arrived on the 17th at ...
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... proceeded up it sixty leagues , and fell in with groups of islands , which he named Cumberland Islands ; passing to the south - east , he opened out Frobisher's Strait , which he named Lumley's Inlet , sailed past Warwick's Foreland ...
... proceeded up it sixty leagues , and fell in with groups of islands , which he named Cumberland Islands ; passing to the south - east , he opened out Frobisher's Strait , which he named Lumley's Inlet , sailed past Warwick's Foreland ...
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