The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, 12권List of members in v. 1-2, 9-10, 15-18. |
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11 페이지 - And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast, and the hail smote every herb of the field and brake every tree of the field.
50 페이지 - From the mutilated state of many of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence.
50 페이지 - Oot-ko-hi-ca-lik), as its description and that of the low shore in the neighbourhood of Point Ogle and Montreal Island agree exactly with that of Sir George Back. Some of the bodies had been buried (probably those of the first victims of famine) ; some were in a tent or tents ; others under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions.
50 페이지 - There appeared to have been an abundant stock of ammunition, as the powder was emptied in a heap on the ground by the natives out of the kegs or cases containing it ; and a quantity of ball and shot was found below high-water mark, having probably been left on the ice close to the beach. There must have been a number of watches, compasses, telescopes, guns (several double-barrelled), &c. ; all of which appear to have been broken up, as I saw pieces of these different articles with the Esquimaux,...
50 페이지 - ... were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom...
50 페이지 - white men' (Kabloonans) had perished from want of food some distance to the westward, and not far beyond a large river containing many falls and rapids. Subsequently, further particulars were received and a number of articles purchased, which places the fate of a portion, if not of all, of the then survivors of Sir John Franklin's long-lost party beyond a doubt - a fate as terrible as the imagination can conceive. The substance of the information obtained at various times and from various sources...
50 페이지 - Land, which is a large island. None of the party could speak the Esquimaux language intelligibly; but by signs the natives were made to understand that their ship, or ships, had been crushed by ice, and that they were now going to where they expected to find deer to shoot.
50 페이지 - Company on my arrival in London. None of the Esquimaux with whom I conversed had seen the ' whites,' nor had they ever been at the place where the bodies were found, but had their information from those who had been there, and who had seen the party when travelling.
50 페이지 - At a later date the same season, "but previous to the breaking up of the ice, the bodies of some thirty persons were discovered on the continent, and .five on an island near it, about a long day's journey to the...
lxxiii 페이지 - ... -meteorological registers) and instruments, gratis, in order to assist effectively in carrying out this important national undertaking. In the preface to a late edition of Johnston's Wind and Current Charts, published last June, at Edinburgh, Dr.