| 1828 - 722 pages
...from the snow being harder at night for travelling. This travelling by night, and sleeping by day, so completely inverted the natural order of things, that it was difficult to persuade ourselves of tho reality. Even the officers and myself, who w$ re all furnished with pocket chronometers, could... | |
| 1828 - 598 pages
...twenty-four hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that...furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men... | |
| Science - 1828 - 450 pages
...: going but little variation. This travelling by night, and sleeping by day, so completely inrerted the natural order of things, that it was difficult...furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...during the twenty-four hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by night, and sleeping by day, to completely inverted the natural order of things,...the officers and myself, who were all furnished with pocket-chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...the twentyfour hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that...furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived; and there were several of the men... | |
| James Bell - Geography - 1831 - 778 pages
...twenty-four hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that...furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twentyfour hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men... | |
| 1832 - 602 pages
...twentyfour hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by niijht and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that...could not always hear in mind at what part of the twenty four hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men who declared, and I believe truly,... | |
| Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 574 pages
...twenty-four hours undergoing but little variation. This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that...furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twentyfour hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men... | |
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