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English: Harpooning seals

Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
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and thirty track-less miles of ice before them. On the third day thedogs gave out: one of the lost men killed his fellow,and revived the animals with his flesh. The wretch-ed survivor at last reached the North American shoreabout Merchants Bay. Years afterward, this accountcame over by a circuitous channel to the Greenlandsettlement. He had married a new wife, had a newfamily, a new home, a new country, from which, hadhe desired it never so much, there could be for himno return. The traditions of all the settlements have tales ofsimilar disaster. Yet the Esquimaux are a happy raceof people, happy so far as content and an elastic tem-perament go to make up happiness. We left the settlements of Baffins Bay on the Cthof September, 1851, grateful exceedingly to the kind-hearted officers of the Danish posts; and after a run ofsome twenty-four days, unmarked by incident, touch-ed our native soil again at New York. Our noblefriend, Henry Grinnell, was the first to welcome us onthe pier-head.
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HARPOONING SEALS. CHAPTER XXXIV. ., DR KANES SECOND EXPEDITION. In the month of December^ 1852, Dr. Kane receivedspecial orders from the Secretary of the Navy, toconduct an expedition to the Arctic seas, in search ofSir John FrankKn. This Second Expedition, in the brig Advance, leftNew York on the 30th day of May, 1853, escorted byseveral steamers; and, passing slowly on to the Nar-rows amid salutes and cheers of farewell, cast off fromthe steam-tug and put to sea. The party, all told, consisted of eighteen persons: Elisha Kent Kane, Commander. Henry Brooks, First Officer. Isaac I. Hayes, Surgeon. August Sontag, Astronomer. William Morton, James McGary, John W. Wilson, Amos Bengali,George Riley, George Stephenson, Christian Ohlsen, George Whipple,William Godfrey, Henry Goodfellow, John Blake, Jefferson Baker, PeterScliubert, Thomas Hickey. The history of this Expedition was published afterthe return of its surviving members, and at once tookrank as the most interesting and most fascin

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