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... carried on through eight years of preparation to fruition . It will be remembered that when the Viceroy Cortés was fitting out his Pacific Coast vessels for the early exploration of the Western Coast of Mexico and California , all the ...
... carried on through eight years of preparation to fruition . It will be remembered that when the Viceroy Cortés was fitting out his Pacific Coast vessels for the early exploration of the Western Coast of Mexico and California , all the ...
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... carry flour to Okhotsk , nearly seven hundred miles distant . On the route the temperature reached minus 71 ° Fahr .; and the " pourga " or blizzard of Siberia is speedy death to those exposed to it . On the last of September , 1726 ...
... carry flour to Okhotsk , nearly seven hundred miles distant . On the route the temperature reached minus 71 ° Fahr .; and the " pourga " or blizzard of Siberia is speedy death to those exposed to it . On the last of September , 1726 ...
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... carry it out . It was successfully accomplished in 1728 , by Bering sailing into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait although he did not see the northwest Cape of America . This was the initiation of Bering , and Chirikof , and ...
... carry it out . It was successfully accomplished in 1728 , by Bering sailing into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait although he did not see the northwest Cape of America . This was the initiation of Bering , and Chirikof , and ...
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... carried out by him . H. H. Bancroft , in his " History of Alaska " ( p . 42 ) says : " The second " Kamchatka expedition * ** was the most brilliant effort " toward scientific discovery which up to this time had been made " by any ...
... carried out by him . H. H. Bancroft , in his " History of Alaska " ( p . 42 ) says : " The second " Kamchatka expedition * ** was the most brilliant effort " toward scientific discovery which up to this time had been made " by any ...
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... beam , and 91⁄2 feet depth of hold ; they were each of 108 tons burthen , and carried 14 two and three pounders . These vessels , with a galley and large sloop , 14 The Tracks and Landfalls of Two Brigs Are Built and Sail for Kamchatka II.
... beam , and 91⁄2 feet depth of hold ; they were each of 108 tons burthen , and carried 14 two and three pounders . These vessels , with a galley and large sloop , 14 The Tracks and Landfalls of Two Brigs Are Built and Sail for Kamchatka II.
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Alaska Albion Amundsen anchorage anchored Argentine authority Bering Bering's boat Buenos Aires California Cape Cape Mendocino Captain chart Chirikof coast of America Cook Copper River course discovery east eastward Elias entrance expedition exploration fathoms of water feet Ferrelo fiord Francis Drake front Geographical Society Gjöa Golden Hinde Guatulco Hakluyt head hundred Hydrographic Icy Bay Inlet June Kadiak Island Kayak Island La Pérouse land latitude 42 latitude 57 legend longitude Magellan magnetic Malaspina mer de glace miles wide moraine mountains narrative natives navigator nearly northeast northward northwest coast ocean Pacific Paraná Passage Canal peninsula Pérouse pole Port Prince William Sound reached the latitude ROALD AMUNDSEN Russian sailed San Francisco says ship shore Silver Map Sitka Sitka Sound southeast southwest Spanish Strait Tebenkof thence three miles tion U. S. Coast Vancouver vessel voyage weather westward Whidbey winds World Encompassed Yakutat Bay
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Stran 25 - ... of large bodies of ice, but they had not before been able to trace the cause. They now found the noise to originate from immense ponderous fragments of ice, breaking off from the higher parts of the main body, and falling from a very considerable height, which in one instance produced so violent a shock that it was sensibly felt by the whole party, although the ground on which they were was at least two leagues from the spot where the fall of ice had taken place.
Stran 30 - Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca; or a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers.
Stran 109 - ANDERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. London [ca.
Stran 16 - Moone took from him, and what ells y* hee had woorth the taking, and so let him go ; and here Drake watered his ship and departed, sayling northwards till he came to 48. gr. of the septentrionall latitud, still finding a very lardge sea trending toward the north, but being afraid to spend long time in seeking for the straite, hee turned back againe, "still keping along the cost as nere land as hee might, vntill hee came to 44. gr...
Stran 18 - Adde hereunto, that though we searched the coast diligently, euen vnto the 48 deg., yet found we not the land to trend so much as one point in any place towards the East, but rather running on continually North-west, as if it went directly to meet with Asia...
Stran 96 - Majesty's right and title to the same ; namely a plate, nailed upon a fair great post, whereupon was engraved her Majesty's name, the day and year of our arrival there, with the free giving up of the province and people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness...
Stran 24 - The next day, after our comming to anchor in the aforesaid harbour, the people of the countrey shewed themselues, sending off a man with great expedition to vs in a canow. Who being yet but a little from the shoare, and a great way from our ship, spake...
Stran 9 - in a very good harborough, called by Magellan Port St. Julian, where we found a gibbet standing upon the maine, which we supposed to be the place where Magellan did execution upon his disobedient and rebellious company ; . . . . in this port our Generall began to inquire diligently of the actions of M.
Stran 109 - Voyages of Discovery and Exploration on the Northwest Coast of America 1539-1603, Davidson's translation, Washington 1886.