Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 1Edward Stanford, 1857 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 16 Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Affichage du livre entier - 1872 |
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 18 Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 4 Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Affichage du livre entier - 1860 |
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A. C. GREGORY Admiralty Africa Albert River America Arctic arrived Atrato Australia banks Beechey Beechey Island boat British Bulama Bushir canal Cape Cape Walker Capt Captain Stokes channel charts coast Colonel colony Commander communication direction discovery distance Dyaks east eastward Esquimaux Euphrates expedition exploration feet Franklin Government Gregory Gulf of Carpentaria Herat honour hope horses important India interest interior Island journey Kane labours Lake land latitude Leichhardt Lieut Lieutenant Livingston Loftus Meeting miles mountains mouth natives navigation northern observations ocean officers Pacific paper party passed Peel Sound Persian Point Pearce Port portion Portuguese present President proceeded proposed reached region remarkable route Royal Geographical Society ships shore Sir Henry Rawlinson Sir Roderick Murchison steamer stream survey tion travelled valley vessel Victoria River visited voyage whole wind
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Page 459 - There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is not some probable show of gold or silver.
Page 392 - My mind never realizes the complete catastrophe, the destruction of all Franklin's crews. I picture them to myself broken into detachments, and my mind fixes itself on one little group of some thirty, who have found the open spot of some tidal eddy, and under the teachings of an Esquimaux or perhaps one of their own Greenland whalers, have set bravely to work, and trapped the fox, speared the bear, and killed the seal and walrus and whale.
Page 373 - Straits into the Pacific. Should the happiness be yet allowed us of witnessing that return, we are of opinion that the Erebus and Terror should be moored henceforth on either side of the Victory, floating monuments of what the Nelsons of discovery can dare and do at the call of their country in the service of the world.
Page 118 - September, 1825, from the feeling of confidence with which he had impressed the Admiralty, in the discharge of his late duties, he was appointed to the Adventure...
Page 445 - And see also the recent edition of the same work, pp. 489 et seq. however, they are followed downwards into the body of the rock, they have usually been found impoverished, either thinning out into slender filaments, or graduating into silver or other ores ; so that these insulated thin courses of auriferous quartz — mere threads in the mountain masses — will soon be exhausted for all profitable purposes, when the upper portions shall have been quarried out.
Page 237 - On describing their feelings afterward, they remarked that 'we marched along with our father, believing that what the ancients had always told us was true, that the world has no end ; but all at once the world said to us, I am finished; there is no more of me ! ' They had always imagined that the world was one extended plain without limit.
Page 191 - The Malay Archipelago' A VISIT TO THE CHIEF (ORANG KAYA) OF A BORNEO VILLAGE IN THE evening the orang kaya came in full dress (a spangled velvet jacket, but no trousers), and invited me over to his house, where he gave me a seat of honor under a canopy of white calico and colored handkerchiefs. The great veranda was crowded with people; and large plates of rice, with cooked and fresh eggs, were placed on the ground as presents for me. A very old man then dressed himself in bright-colored clothes...
Page 91 - Arctic researches which have reflected much honor upon our country may not be abandoned at the very moment when an explanation of the wanderings and fate of our lost navigators seems to be within our grasp. In conclusion, we further earnestly pray that it may not be left to the efforts of individuals of another and kindred nation, already so distinguished in this cause, nor yet to the noble-minded widow of our lamented friend, to make an endeavor which can be so much more effectively carried out...
Page 90 - I am really in doubt as to the preservation of human life. I well know how glad I would have been, had my duty to others permitted me, to have taken refuge among the Esquimaux of Smith Strait and Etah Bay. Strange as it may seem to you, we regarded the coarse life of these people with eyes of envy, and did not doubt but that we could have lived in comfort upon their resources. It required all my powers, moral and physical, to prevent my men from deserting to the Walrus Settlements...
Page 113 - Mesopotamia and Adjacent Countries," and in 1830, " Assyria and Media." At a later period, he made tours in various parts of Europe and North America, the published accounts of which make many volumes. He visited the United States, and lectured in most of the cities of the Union.