Northern Regions: Or, Uncle Richard's Relation of Captain Parry's Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage, and Franklin's and Cochrane's Overland Journeys to Other Parts of the World

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C.S. Francis, 1856 - 302페이지

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20 페이지 - ... finally disentangled from the land which forms the western side of Baffin's Bay; and that, in fact, we had actually entered the Polar Sea.
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