| Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which... | |
| 1840 - 1176 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. \Ve could go no further. " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 pages
...continually fornming and extending imm every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...the obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last imope vanished of discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled... | |
| Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1844 - 560 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| 1856 - 610 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - American periodicals - 1869 - 444 pages
...the waves with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. . . . With a painful feeling of the impossibility...obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope now vanished of discovering the land which we still believed to exist; and we saw ourselves compelled... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 790 pages
...the waves with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. . . . With a painful feeling of the impossibility...obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope now vanished of discovering the land which we still believed to exist; and we saw ourselves compelled... | |
| Georg Ludwig Hartwig - Antarctica - 1869 - 614 pages
...pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lines of water were continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which... | |
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