# bib

id: 3482
author: Hakluyt, Richard
title: Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 50568
sentence: 1417
flesch: 65
cache: cache/3482.txt
txt: txt/3482.txt
summary:
  For America is discovered so far towards the north as Cape Frido, which is at 62 degrees, and that part of Greenland next adjoining is known to stand but at 72 degrees; so that we have but 10 degrees to sail north and south to put the world out of doubt hereof; and it is likely that the King of Spain and the King of Portugal would not have sat out all this while but that they are sure to possess to themselves all that trade they now use, and fear to deal in this discovery lest the Queen's Majesty, having so good opportunity, and finding the commodity which thereby might ensue to the commonwealth, would cut them off and enjoy the whole traffic to herself, and thereby the Spaniards and Portuguese with their great charges should beat the bush and other men catch the birds; which thing they foreseeing, have commanded that no pilot of theirs, upon pain of death, should seek to discover to the north-west, or plat out in any sea-card any through passage that way by the north-west. From this shore, ten or twelve leagues, we met great islands of ice of half a mile, some more, some less in compass, showing above the sea thirty or forty fathoms, and as we supposed fast on ground, where, with our lead, we could scarce sound the bottom for depth.


id: 48528
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 67976
sentence: 2490
flesch: 67
cache: cache/48528.txt
txt: txt/48528.txt
title:
  The great probability of a North West Passage deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte

summary:
  _Bernarda_ directed by the Jesuits as to the Harbour where he meets _de Fonte_. From where _Bernarda_ came to with his Ship was one Hundred and twenty Miles to _


id: 18979
author: Franklin, John
title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 85506
sentence: 2817
flesch: 62
cache: cache/18979.txt
txt: txt/18979.txt
summary:
  Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement, and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake; and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward, unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. Several Indians, who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with very little awe, and were extremely free in the remarks and jokes they passed upon the condition of the sweaters, and even of Kepoochikawn himself.


id: 13512
author: Parry, William Edward, Sir
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 91491
sentence: 2176
flesch: 52
cache: cache/13512.txt
txt: txt/13512.txt
title:
  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1

summary:
  I have before remarked that the loose ice in this neighbourhood was heavy in proportion to the floes from which it had been broken; and the impossibility of sailing among such ice, most of which drew more water than the Hecla, and could not, therefore, be turned by her weight, was this day rendered very apparent, the ships having received by far the heaviest shocks which they experienced during the voyage. It is but justice, however, to the memory of Captain Middleton to add, that several miles of this error may have been occasioned by the imperfection of nautical instruments in his day, combined with the unavoidable inaccuracy of observations made by the horizon of the sea when encumbered with much ice.


id: 14350
author: Parry, William Edward, Sir
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 91930
sentence: 2345
flesch: 55
cache: cache/14350.txt
txt: txt/14350.txt
title:
  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2

summary:
  [002] The expression fixed ice appearing better suited to our present obstacle than that of land ice, I shall in future adopt it in speaking of this barrier. Finding, soon after Captain Hoppner's return, that the current swept the Hecla a long way to the southward while hoisting up the boats, and that more ice was drifting in towards the shore, I was under the painful necessity of recalling the party at the pumps, rather than incur the risk, now an inevitable one, of parting company with them altogether.


id: 18985
author: Franklin, John
title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 91559
sentence: 3081
flesch: 65
cache: cache/18985.txt
txt: txt/18985.txt
summary:
  In the afternoon the weather cleared up, and several men went hunting, but were unsuccessful. Belanger arrived alone; he had walked constantly for the last six-and-thirty hours, leaving his Indian companions encamped at the last woods, they being unwilling to accompany him across the barren grounds during the storm that had prevailed for several days, and blew with unusual violence on the morning of his arrival.


id: 13518
author: Franklin, John
title: The Journey to the Polar Sea
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 176358
sentence: 5955
flesch: 63
cache: cache/13518.txt
txt: txt/13518.txt
summary:
  Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. When the conversation was resumed the chief renewed his solicitations for goods, but it was now too palpable to be mistaken that he aimed at getting everything he possibly could and leaving us without the means of making any presents to the Esquimaux or other Indians we might meet.


