. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. tar 234 RFXENT NOIITII-WEST VOYAGES. ciUF. VII. for two of his hawsers were carried away, and the host StiengtTi of bower anclior, weighing more than a ton, was wrenched th's leo. from the bows, and broken oflF as if it had been crockcrv- ware. During these disasters the sailors were amused by the sight of three companion-ships, two belonging to the Hudson's
. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. tar 234 RFXENT NOIITII-WEST VOYAGES. ciUF. VII. for two of his hawsers were carried away, and the host StiengtTi of bower anclior, weighing more than a ton, was wrenched th's leo. from the bows, and broken oflF as if it had been crockcrv- ware. During these disasters the sailors were amused by the sight of three companion-ships, two belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company, and one bringing out settlers for Lord Selkirk's colony. The emigrants on board the last, who were chiefly Dutch and Germans, were seen waltzing on deck often for hours together, and were only driven into their cabins by a severe fall of snow. Amid these obstructions the ships spent nineteen days in making seventy miles ; which course, however, brought them, on the 2l3t, within two leagues of what are called the Savage Islands. On the following after- noon a loud shouting was heard over the ice, and soon after there appeared a numerous band of natives, paddling their canoes through the lanes of open water, or, where these failed, drawing them over the pieces of ice. Among a great number of kaynks, or boats rowed by a single man (see plate p. 178), were five oomiakSy or women's Slow pro KI'tiDS, Women's bouts I. Oomlak, or Wcinan's Boat. boats, constructed of a framework of wood and whale- bone covered with deer-skins, having flat sides and bot- tom, and of considerable size. One of them, 26 feet by 8, contained women, boys, and young children, to the number of twenty-one. Presently began a merry, noisy scene of frolic and traffic. The natives carried it on with eagerness and even fury, stripping themselves of the very skins which formed their only covering, till. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
Size: 2397px × 1042px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, booksubjectnaturalhistory, booksubjectsciencesn
