 | Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure - 1853 - 70 Seiten
...along this coast ; nor could we round to, fearful of carrying the jibboom away against its cliffs, which here run nearly east and west. The cape forming...Highness. There were two apparently good harbours about 20 miles to the eastward of the cape ; the westernmost had a breakwater half-a-mile in length, twenty... | |
 | John Brown - 1858 - 498 Seiten
...here ran east and west. . . The cape forming its western extreme " •was called " Prince Alfred. . . There were two apparently good harbours about twenty miles to the eastward of this cape. . . Our critical position," remarks Captain M'Clure, " would not admit of any detention,... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1860 - 696 Seiten
...along this coast; nor could we round to, fearful of carrying the jib-boom away against its clifts, which here run nearly east and west. The cape forming...called Prince Alfred, in honour of his Royal Highness. On the morning of the 20th, our further progress was impeded by finding the ice resting upon a point,... | |
 | 1868 - 470 Seiten
...along this coast ; nor could we round to, fearful of carrying the jibboom away against its cliffs, which here run nearly east and west. The cape forming...Highness. There were two apparently good harbours about £0 miles to the eastward of the cape ; the westernmost had a breakwater half-a-mile in length, twenty... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 Seiten
...along this coast ; nor could we round to, fearful of carrying the jib-boom away against the clitts, which here run nearly east and west. The cape forming...highness. There were two apparently good harbours about 20 miles to the eastward of the cape ; the westernmost had a breakwater £ mile in length, 20 feet... | |
 | Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 622 Seiten
...along this coast ; nor could we round to, fearful of carrying the jib-boom away against the cliffs, which here run nearly east and west. The cape forming...called Prince Alfred, in honour of his Royal Highness. On the morning of the 20th, our further progress was impeded by rinding the ice resting upon a point,... | |
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... avoid getting beset, we had nearly to touch the land; indeed, upon several occasions the boats were compelled to be topped up, and poles used to keep the vessel off the grounded ice, which extends all along this coast; nor could we round to, fearful... 