A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South PoleSynge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
Discoveries in geography
Parry's Ships, the _Hecla_ and _Griper_, in Winter Harbour . . . 369
From a Drawing in PARRY'S _Voyage for the North-West Passage_,
1821.
The North Shore of Lancaster Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
From a Drawing in PARRY'S _Voyage for the North-West Passage_,
1821.
A Winter View of Fort Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
From a Drawing, by WILLIAM BACK, in Franklin's _Journey to the
Polar Sea_, 1823.
Franklin's Expedition to the Polar Sea on the Ice . . . . . . . . 377
From a Drawing, by WILLIAM BACK, in Franklin's _Journey to the
Polar Sea_, 1823.
An Eskimo watching a Seal Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
From a Drawing in PARRY'S _Second Voyage for a North-West
Passage_, 1824.
Fort Franklin, on the Great Bear Lake, in the Winter . . . . . . 383
From a Drawing in FRANKLIN'S _Second Expedition to the Polar
Sea_, 1828.
Franklin's Expedition crossing Back's Inlet . . . . . . . . . . . 385
From a Drawing, by Lieut. BACK, in Franklin's _Second
Expedition to the Polar Sea_, 1828.
The Boats of Parry's Expedition hauled up on the Ice for the
Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
From a Drawing in PARRY'S _Attempt to Reach the North Pole_,
1828.
Major Denham and his Party received by the Sheikh of Bornu . . . 393
From a Drawing by Major DENHAM.
The first European Picture of Timbuktu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
From a Drawing in CAILLE'S _Tomboctou_, 1829.
Richard and John Lander paddling down the Niger . . . . . . . . . 401
From a Drawing in the account of LANDER'S _Travels_, 1835.
The Rosses on their Journey to the North Magnetic Pole . . . . . 407
From a Drawing in ROSS'S _Second Voyage for a North-West
Passage_, 1835.
"Somerset House," Ross's Winter Quarters on Fury Beach . . . . . 409
From a Drawing in ROSS'S _Second Voyage for a North-West
Passage_, 1835.
Matthew Flinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Cape Catastrophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
From FLINDERS' _Voyages_.
The Huts of the Crew of the _Porpoise_ on the Sandbank, Wreck
Reef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
From FLINDERS' _Voyages_.
Captain Sturt at the Junction of the Rivers Darling and Murray . 423
From the _Narrative of Sturt's Expedition_.
The Burke and Wills Expedition leaving Melbourne, 1860 . . . . . 425
From a Drawing by WILLIAM STRUTT, an acquaintance of Burke.
Burke and Wills at Cooper's Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
From a Woodcut in a contemporary Australian account of the
expedition.
Part of the Great Southern Ice Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
From ROSS'S _Voyage in the Antarctic Regions_.
Eskimos at Cape York watching the approach of the _Fox_ . . . . . 434
From McCLINTOCK'S _Voyage in Search of Franklin_.
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