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... head- quarters ; with no mode of quick communication . The wonder is , that in the fierce domestic and foreign issues of that period of eleven years , all of the expeditions were not incontinently abandoned . There would seem to have ...
... head- quarters ; with no mode of quick communication . The wonder is , that in the fierce domestic and foreign issues of that period of eleven years , all of the expeditions were not incontinently abandoned . There would seem to have ...
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... heads of the various departments of scientists and naval officers serving under Bering's command , the name of Chirikof is never found . He seems to have had the good will of every one and to have escaped all complaints from superiors ...
... heads of the various departments of scientists and naval officers serving under Bering's command , the name of Chirikof is never found . He seems to have had the good will of every one and to have escaped all complaints from superiors ...
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... head- way while Chirikof made good progress . After the 4th of July Ber- ing held a course well to the NE . and Chirikof kept on his general E. NE . course . Their courses cross in latitude 50 ° and about longi- tude 156 ° , with Bering ...
... head- way while Chirikof made good progress . After the 4th of July Ber- ing held a course well to the NE . and Chirikof kept on his general E. NE . course . Their courses cross in latitude 50 ° and about longi- tude 156 ° , with Bering ...
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... head winds and his progress was slow , so that he made little more than one hundred miles in three days . From noon of the 17th he steered to the northwestward for one day , and he was within less than ninety miles from Mt. St. Elias ...
... head winds and his progress was slow , so that he made little more than one hundred miles in three days . From noon of the 17th he steered to the northwestward for one day , and he was within less than ninety miles from Mt. St. Elias ...
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... head for the north and west , in order to explore the coast they had left . Their general course would have been to the west- southwest , had no land intervened . They were then on soundings but the wind was easterly , and thick fogs ...
... head for the north and west , in order to explore the coast they had left . Their general course would have been to the west- southwest , had no land intervened . They were then on soundings but the wind was easterly , and thick fogs ...
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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.