 | Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure - Arctic regions - 1853 - 70 pages
...send us on the beach, from which we were never distant 80 yards, upon which the smaller ice was hurled as it came in contact with these grounded masses,...this time the vessel was within a few feet of it, and everyone was on deck in anxious suspense, awaiting what was apparently the crisis of our fate.... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 630 pages
...sent forward to destroy the obstacle by blasting. " He could not, however," writes Captain M'CIure, find a sufficient space of water to sink the charge...remarking a large cavity upon the sea face of the floe, he faed it there, which so far succeeded that it slightly fractured it in three places, which at the moment... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - Arctic regions - 1860 - 696 pages
...upon which the smaller ice Endcnwnr to was hurled as it came in contact with these grounded b^J{lng. y masses, I sent John Kerr (gunner's mate), under very...this time, the vessel was within a few feet of it, and every one was on deck in anxious suspense, awaiting what was apparently the 486 CAPTAIN M'CLURE.... | |
 | Arctic regions - 1868 - 470 pages
...which the smaller ice was hurled as it came in contact with these grounded masses, I sent John Kcrr (gunner's mate), under very difficult circumstances,...this time the vessel was within a few feet of it, and everyone was on deck in anxious suspense, awaiting what was apparently the crisis of our fate.... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 pages
...never distant 8 yards, upon which the smaller ice was hurled as it came in contact with t llese pounded masses, I sent John Kerr (gunner's mate), under very...this time the vessel was within a few feet of it, and every one was on deck in €inxious suspense, awaiting what was apparently the crisis of our fate.... | |
 | Helen Saunders Wright - Arctic regions - 1910 - 622 pages
...these grounded masses, I sent John Kerr (gunner's mate) under very difficult circumstances, to endeavor to reach it and effect its destruction by blasting...this time, the vessel was within a few feet of it, and every one was on deck in anxious suspense, awaiting what was apparently the crisis of our fate... | |
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... masses, I sent John Kerr (gunner's mate), under very difficult circumstances, to endeavour to reach it and effect its destruction by blasting. He could not, however, find a sufficient space of water to sink the charge, but remarking a large cavity... 