Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America: Including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage; with Observations on Emigration, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - America |
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Page 6 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Page 18 - English apparel), he was upon the sudden much amazed thereat; and beholding advisedly the same with silence a good while, as though he would...
Page 221 - ... weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture calculated to impress upon the mind an idea of inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything, in short, but life. In the very silence there is a deadness with which a human spectator appears out of "keeping. The presence of man seems an intrusion on the dreary solitude of this wintry desert, which even its native animals have for awhile...
Page 221 - But here, when once the earth is covered, all is dreary monotonous whiteness — not merely for days or weeks, but for more than half a year together. Whichever way the eye is turned, it meets a picture calculated to impress upon the mind an idea of inanimate stillness, of that motionless torpor with which our feelings have nothing congenial ; of anything, in short, but life.
Page 10 - Whereupon, when he found himself in captivity, for very choler and disdain he bit his tongue in twain within his mouth ; notwithstanding, he died not thereof, but lived until he came in England, and then he died of cold which he had taken at sea.
Page 164 - I distinctly saw the land, round the bottom of the bay, forming a connected chain of montains with those which extended along the north and south sides. This land appeared to be at the distance of eight leagues; and Mr.
Page 51 - You shall swear truth to God, your prince, and country ; you shall do nothing but to the glory of God and the good of the action in hand, and harm to no man.
Page 224 - Every endeavour of ours to get her off, or if got off, to float her to any known place of safety, would be at once utterly hopeless in itself, and productive of extreme risk to our remaining ship.
Page 159 - Every effort to avoid their getting foul of each other failed; the ice-anchors and cables broke one after another, and the sterns of the two ships came so violently into contact, as to crush to pieces a boat that could not be removed in time.
Page 350 - ... exhaustion of bodily strength produced a cessation of madness for a few minutes. A hymn was given out and sung; praying then recommenced; the scene of madness was again acted, with, if possible, increased efforts on the part of the performers. One of the brothers prayed to be kept from enthusiasm] A girl of six years of age became the next object of attention. A reverend brother proclaimed that she "had just received a visit from the Lord, and was in awful convulsions — so hard was the working...