A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, During the Years 1839-43, 2. ciltJ. Murray, 1847 |
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150 fathoms 600 fathoms Admiralty amongst Antarctic Antarctic Circle appearance barometer basalt beautiful bergs birds boats breeze Cape Gage Cape Horn Captain Captain Crozier Chatham Island clear cliffs Cockburn Island Commander cove crew Crozier degree depth distance east Easterly eastward England Erebus Falkland Islands favourable feet Fuegian gale greenstone ground harbour heavy height Hermite Island hundred fathoms inches Islet Kerguelen Island land latitude Lieutenant longitude magnetic dip MAJESTY'S SHIP Martin's Cove mean temperature METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL midnight miles morning natives nearly night noon northward observations observatory ocean pack edge passed petrel plants Port Louis Port William present rain rocks sail seen shore snow southern southward species surface swell Terror thick tide tion trees Tussock Van Diemen's Land vessel weather Westerly westward whales whilst wind wood Zealand 米米米米 米米米
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Sayfa 173 - The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs, which were towering high above our mastheads, rendered it a service of extreme danger to loose the main-sail ; but no sooner was the order given, than the daring spirit of the British seaman manifested itself — the men ran up the rigging with as much alacrity as on any ordinary occasion; and although more than once driven off the yard, they after a short time succeeded...
Sayfa 122 - Soon after midnight our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so much violence that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks they received.
Sayfa 123 - ... violent were the shocks they sustained. The loud crashing noise of the straining and working of the timbers and decks, as she was driven against some of the heavier pieces, which all the activity and exertions of our people could not prevent, was sufficient to fill the stoutest heart, that was 1842. not supported by trust in Him who controls all events, with dismay...
Sayfa 174 - We hove to on the port tack, under the lee of the berg, which now afforded us invaluable protection from the fury of the storm, which was still raging above and around us ; and commenced clearing away the wreck of the broken spars, saving as much of the rigging as possible, whilst a party were engaged preparing others to replace them. As soon as day broke we had the gratification of learning that the Terror had only lost two or three small spars and had not suffered any serious damage...
Sayfa 122 - We had hoped that as we drifted deeper into the pack, we should get beyond the reach of the tempest ; but in this we were mistaken. Hour passed away after hour without the least mitigation of the awful circumstances in which we were placed. Indeed, there seemed to be but little probability of our ships holding together much longer, so frequent and violent were the shocks they sustained. The loud crashing noise of the straining and working of the timbers and decks, as she was driven against some of...
Sayfa 172 - ... which nothing could justify during such a gale and with so high a sea running, but to avert the danger which every moment threatened us of being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs, which were towering high above our mast-heads, rendered it a service of extreme danger to loose the mainsail; but no sooner was the order given, than the daring spirit of the British seaman manifested...
Sayfa 172 - ... clear the end of the berg, and of feeling that she was safe. But she left us completely disabled; the wreck of the spars so encumbered the lower yards that we were unable to make sail, so as to get headway on the ship; nor had we room to wear round, being by this time so close to the berg that the waves, when they struck against it, threw back their sprays into the ship.
Sayfa 122 - By backing and filling the sails, we endeavoured to avoid collision with the larger masses ; but this was not always possible. In the early part of the storm, the rudder of the Erebus was so much damaged as to be no longer of any use ; and about the same time I was informed by signal that the Terror's was completely destroyed, and nearly torn away from the stern-post.
Sayfa 124 - ... understood. Each of us secured our hold, waiting the issue with resignation to the will of Him who alone could preserve us, and bring us safely through this extreme danger; watching with breathless anxiety the effect of each succeeding collision, and the vibrations of the tottering masts, expecting every moment to see them give way without our having the power to make an effort to save them.
Sayfa 174 - ... astern of us, against which we were running ; and the difficulty now was to get the ship's head turned round and pointed fairly through between the two bergs, the breadth .of the intervening space not exceeding three times her own breadth ; this, however, we happily accomplished ; and in a few minutes, after getting before the wind, she dashed through the narrow channel, between two perpendicular walls of ice, and the foaming breakers which stretched across it, and the next moment we were in...