Narrative of an expedition to the east coast of Greenland ... in search of the lost colonies, tr. by G.G. Macdougall1837 - 80 pages |
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... circumstances , may create obstacles that we are here unable to foresee , we leave all this to your discretion , advising only that you employ the year 1828 in such a manner as to enable you to seize the very first viii OFFICIAL ...
... circumstances , may create obstacles that we are here unable to foresee , we leave all this to your discretion , advising only that you employ the year 1828 in such a manner as to enable you to seize the very first viii OFFICIAL ...
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... . The Danish word is Skior . - Trans . The word Hvarf means a place of turning , a circumstance sufficing of itself to prove that it was not on the East coast that Erik settled . a expiration of which time he returned to Iceland , and.
... . The Danish word is Skior . - Trans . The word Hvarf means a place of turning , a circumstance sufficing of itself to prove that it was not on the East coast that Erik settled . a expiration of which time he returned to Iceland , and.
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... circumstance from which we may infer that there seemed more likelihood of discovering traces of the lost colony in the vicinity of the country whence they came than where he himself had seized his prisoners . Lindenow , indeed , steered ...
... circumstance from which we may infer that there seemed more likelihood of discovering traces of the lost colony in the vicinity of the country whence they came than where he himself had seized his prisoners . Lindenow , indeed , steered ...
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... circumstances , meanwhile , retarded the execution of this design until the year 1827 , when the king appointed a commission , under the presidency of Count Moltke of Bregentved , to take into consideration the means best calculated to ...
... circumstances , meanwhile , retarded the execution of this design until the year 1827 , when the king appointed a commission , under the presidency of Count Moltke of Bregentved , to take into consideration the means best calculated to ...
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... circumstance it was that led to the expeditions of Ross , Buchan , Parry , Franklin , and Beechey , it being imagined that the sea would now be found navigable all the way to the Pole . Davis ' Straits and Baffin's Bay , however , were ...
... circumstance it was that led to the expeditions of Ross , Buchan , Parry , Franklin , and Beechey , it being imagined that the sea would now be found navigable all the way to the Pole . Davis ' Straits and Baffin's Bay , however , were ...
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