A Short Narrative of the Second Voyage of the "Prince Albert" in Search of Sir John Franklin - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE LONG JOURNEY. Leave Fury Beach Foe The South--Equipments Foe The Journey--Contrivances For The ProTection Of The Face And Eyes Masks--GuttaPercha Noses--Goggles Routine Of A Day's March Progress Along The Coast--Reach Brentford Bay Discovery Of A Passage LeadIng To The Western Sea Numerous Traces Of Rein-deer, Musk Oxen, Etc.--Cross The Western Sea Prince Of Wales Land--Level Plains Snow Storms Snow Blindness Change Our Course Northwaed Teavel At Night Instead Of Day--Strike Ommanney Bay Change Due Course Eastward Indian Mode Of Hunting Rein-deer--A Supper On Raw Partridges--Strike Peel's Inlet--Arrive At Cape Walker--Return Homeward Round The North Shore Of North Somerset Detention At Whaler Point--Breaking Up Of The Ice--Return To The SHIP. After the various accidents and detentions which had delayed our journey up to this period, we were heartily glad to be able at 9 A.m. of the 29th March, to take our final departure from Fury Beach. It had been arranged that our whole party, consisting as already stated of fourteen men, should proceed together as far as Brentford Bay, whence eight were to be sent back to the ship, while the remaining six proceeded on the journey. Our object in this arrangement will be readily understood. To husband the resources of the long party, who had probably three months of travelling before them, and upwards of a thousand miles to get over in that time, was obviously an object of the utmost importance. The supply of provisions which six men could carry along with them, would be utterly inadequate to the performance of so long a journey, but by making Brentford Bay our starting point, and bringing the relief party thus far with us, the consumption for that distance at any rate would be saved. Our equipments from ...
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William Kennedy (1814–1890) was an explorer and fur trader who was the commander of Lady Franklin's second sponsored expedition to rescue her husband Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), who had not returned from his 1845 Arctic expedition. This volume contains Kennedy's detailed account of his 1851 expedition.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115134298X
- ISBN 13 9781151342980
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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