 | Edmund Burke - History - 1855 - 1078 pages
...ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom...then supposed to be getting short of provisions ; and they purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later date the same season, but previously to the... | |
 | History - 1855 - 1076 pages
...ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom...then supposed to be getting short of provisions ; and they purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later date the same season, but previously to the... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1855 - 540 pages
...with the exception of one officer, were hauling on the drag- ropes of the sledge, and were looking thin) they were then supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased a small seal, or piece of seal, from the natives. The officer was described as bejng... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...had been crushed by ice, and that the ' whites' were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom, except one officer (chief), looked thin, they were then supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased... | |
 | 1853 - 746 pages
...well as the newest, of Yankee " notions." BUCKINGHAM PALACE, to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom, except one officer, looked thin, they were then snppesed to he getting short of provisions, and purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later... | |
 | John Ryerson - Hudson Bay - 1855 - 244 pages
...ship, or ships, had been crushed by ice, and they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom,...then supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased a small seal from the natives. At a later date the same season, but previous to the... | |
 | Sir Edward Belcher - Arctic regions - 1855 - 488 pages
...crushed by the ice, and that they were going (3) to where they expected to find deer to shoot. " Prom the appearance of the men, all of whom, except one officer, looked thin (4), they were supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased a small seal from the... | |
 | Richard King - Arctic regions - 1855 - 278 pages
...been crushed in the ice, and that the ' whites' were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom, except one officer (chief) looked thin, they were supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased a small... | |
 | 1855 - 636 pages
...whom, with the exception of an officer, were hauling on the drag-ropes of the sledge, and were looking thin — they were then supposed to be getting short of provisions; and they purchased a small seal, or piece of seal, from the natives. The officer was described as being... | |
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Land, which is a large island. None of the party could speak the Esquimaux language intelligibly, but by signs the natives were made to understand that their ship, or ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected... 
