Part, Chapter
1 I, V | take the shortest route to Cape Bathurst, on the North American
2 I, V | convoy with provisions to Cape Bathurst, and that a detachment
3 I, VIII | Arctic Ocean, and bounded by Cape Bathurst. Should the site
4 I, VIII | this time of year. About Cape Bathurst, properly so called,
5 I, VIII | the Great Bear Lake and Cape Bathurst was very difficult
6 I, IX | attempt is to get to the cape on the north-east, and if
7 I, X | bounded on the north by Cape Krusenstein, and from it
8 I, X | the north-west, ending in Cape Bathurst, which is above
9 I, X | discovered by Hearne and Cape Turnagain. This expedition
10 I, XI | Coppermine River, and ended in Cape Krusenstern.~After consulting
11 I, XI | seventieth degree. But beyond Cape Krusenstern, the coast-line,
12 I, XI | about the same elevation as Cape Bathurst, the spot named
13 I, XI | have now only to start for Cape Bathurst.”~But as a day
14 I, XI | called Darnley Bay, of which Cape Parry is the westernmost
15 I, XII | seemed that the extremity of Cape Bathurst would be a most
16 I, XII | halted at the extremity of Cape Bathurst. It remained to
17 I, XII | the exact position of this cape, which the maps place above
18 I, XII | Hobson; “and if we find that Cape Bathurst is really beyond
19 I, XII | to the very edge of the cape, and found that towards
20 I, XII | yards to the south-east of Cape Bathurst, and emptied itself
21 I, XII | little behind the actual cape, the principal house and
22 I, XII | winds. The elevation of the cape would help to protect them
23 I, XII | of the icebergs; and the cape itself might be surrounded
24 I, XII | a light mist. What would Cape Bathurst be like in the
25 I, XII | determine the position of Cape Bathurst.”~“But I understand,
26 I, XII | taking the exact bearings of Cape Bathurst. The sun shone
27 I, XII | what would the meridian of Cape Bathurst matter to him should
28 I, XII | true-the western coast beyond Cape Bathurst sloped down below
29 I, XII | directing his course to Cape Bathurst after a thorough
30 I, XII | Lieutenant with one voice.~Cape Bathurst and its immediate
31 I, XIII | the level ground behind Cape Bathurst, on the eastern
32 I, XIII | were plenty of trees about Cape Bathurst, although as Hobson
33 I, XIII | broken granite; and the cape itself was but an accumulation
34 I, XIII | the plateau at the foot of Cape Bathurst. From this point
35 I, XIII | the eastern side of the cape was covered, driving it
36 I, XIII | found in the country around Cape Bathurst.~The difficulty
37 I, XIII | exploring the environs of Cape Bathurst, and satisfied
38 I, XIV | to the neighbourhood of Cape Bathurst. Every book of
39 I, XV | XV.~ FIFTEEN MILES FROM CAPE BATHURST.~September had
40 I, XV | defence complete the summit of Cape Bathurst, which was the
41 I, XV | regard to the country around Cape Bathurst, and to see some
42 I, XV | the shore to the west of Cape Bathurst rises but a few
43 I, XV | not at high tide inundate Cape Bathurst, which possessed
44 I, XV | all along the shores of Cape Bathurst.”~“Can you not
45 I, XV | this district and that of Cape Bathurst.~Here the coast
46 I, XV | conspicuously absent at the cape, was here plentiful; the
47 I, XV | the North-West Passage to Cape Bathurst would, be open
48 I, XV | concealed by the cliffs on the Cape Bathurst side, and Jaspar
49 I, XV | coast-line stretching away to Cape Bathurst. Any one provided
50 I, XV | to the east and south the cape was bounded by a vast plain,
51 I, XV | would settle a little nearer Cape Bathurst.~“They could riot
52 I, XV | easily from the sea. Now Cape Bathurst rises abruptly,
53 I, XV | morses on the beach of our cape.”~
54 I, XVI | these foxes were sighted at Cape Bathurst, but all escaped
55 I, XVI | have founded a factory on Cape Bathurst, therefore we will
56 I, XVII | the approaching tide at Cape Bathurst. Jaspar Hobson
57 I, XVII | behind the cliff of the cape, had been prepared beforehand,
58 I, XVII | thickness soon clothed the cape, the enceinte of fort, and
59 I, XVII | a few days the aspect of Cape Bathurst and the surrounding
60 I, XVII | remain in different parts of Cape Bathurst throughout the
61 I, XVIII| a scene was presented by Cape Bathurst and the surrounding
62 I, XVIII| shall suffer as much at Cape Bathurst as we might have
63 I, XVIII| farther north latitude than Cape Bathurst, are they not?”~“
64 I, XIX | furred animals about the cape, and as they could not get
65 I, XIX | the fort, near a little cape jutting out from the coast.~“
66 I, XIX | a factory established on Cape Bathurst. Indeed the two
67 I, XIX | Mrs Barnett set out for “ Cape Esquimaux,” as they had
68 I, XIX | family remained encamped near Cape Esquimaux for eight days.
69 I, XX | be a fire anywhere near Cape Bathurst.~The Lieutenant
70 I, XX | igneous hills, some miles from Cape Bathurst, could not be seen;
71 I, XXII | violent earthquake had shaken Cape Bathurst. Such convulsions
72 I, XXII | crest of the promontory of Cape Bathurst had been broken
73 I, XXII | beach. The whole mass of the cape seemed to have been bent
74 I, XXII | will probably anchor off Cape Bathurst, and I shall return
75 I, XXII | coast, and have anchored off Cape Bathurst.~Whilst the ice
76 I, XXII | further than two miles from Cape Bathurst, for they had never
77 I, XXII | May, they ought to reach Cape Bathurst towards the middle
78 I, XXII | Lieutenant had fixed upon the cape as the spot of rendezvous,
79 I, XXII | districts surrounding the cape were carefully watched.
80 I, XXIII| dense that the summit of the cape could not be seen from the
81 I, XXIII| she pleaded the cause of Cape Bathurst and the factory,
82 I, XXIII| tremble before the hunters of Cape Bathurst, nor do I fear
83 I, XXIII| is not so easy to get to Cape Bathurst or to Fort Hope
84 I, XXIII| no tide on the coast of Cape Bathurst.”~“And what do
85 I, XXIII| silent upon the summit of the cape, gazing across the sea,
86 I, XXIII| climb to the summit of the cape and gaze into the heavens.
87 I, XXIII| round the astronomer on Cape Bathurst. Gradually the
88 I, XXIII| What was the situation of Cape Bathurst a year ago when
89 I, XXIII| inexplicable were now explained.~Cape Bathurst had drifted three
90 II, I | him.~All had now left the cape except Mrs Barnett, Madge,
91 II, I | horizon on the north. Had Cape Bathurst been situated a
92 II, I | non-arrival of the convoy sent to Cape Bathurst by Captain Craventy.”~“
93 II, II | who were with him on the cape to come to his room and
94 II, II | of the Polar Sea between Cape Bathurst and Behring Strait.~
95 II, II | Behring Strait, touching Cape East, a promontory of Siberia.
96 II, II | current from the offing of Cape Bathurst which bears directly
97 II, II | and again he returned to Cape Bathurst either alone, or
98 II, III | the beach at the foot of Cape Bathurst as his dockyard,
99 II, III | flung with such force upon Cape Bathurst, that there was
100 II, III | sea or the position of the cape during the absence of the
101 II, III | break upon the shores of Cape Esquimaux.”~“Cape Esquimaux!”
102 II, III | shores of Cape Esquimaux.”~“Cape Esquimaux!” observed Mrs
103 II, III | River; who can tell whether Cape Esquimaux and Walruses’
104 II, III | Which?” inquired Hobson.~“Cape Bathurst,” replied Long.~“
105 II, III | Ah, yes, you are right. Cape Bathurst must now be removed
106 II, III | round him from the summit of Cape Esquimaux; but seeing nothing
107 II, III | a factory at the foot of Cape Bathurst.”~“Oh yes, perfectly.”~“
108 II, III | journey was resumed.~From Cape Esquimaux to Walruses’ Bay
109 II, III | not made bench marks about Cape Bathurst before he left,
110 II, IV | on this side ended in a cape, coming to an almost sharp
111 II, IV | break for seven miles to the cape they had named Cape Michael.
112 II, IV | the cape they had named Cape Michael. This side of the
113 II, IV | massed a little behind the cape, were in their fullest beauty
114 II, IV | about six o’clock A.M.~From Cape Michael to the former Port
115 II, V | from the equator as Icy Cape, a little promontory of
116 II, V | remembered the scheme of crowning Cape Bathurst with a redoubt
117 II, V | dockyard at the foot of Cape Bathurst.~Whilst the carpenters
118 II, V | the beach at the foot of Cape Bathurst, where they had
119 II, V | knowing the districts near Cape Michael to be rich in different
120 II, V | pay for the men. Was not Cape Bathurst a corner of a privileged
121 II, VI | avalanche. Fortunately, Cape Bathurst protected the house
122 II, VI | to climb to the summit of Cape Bathurst, in order to examine
123 II, VI | He got to the foot of the cape without much difficulty.
124 II, VI | and half-a-mile from the cape water and clouds were confounded
125 II, VI | fury, and Hobson felt the cape tremble to its foundations.
126 II, VI | let himself slide down the cape, and fought his way to Fort
127 II, VI | not this time climbing the cape, but going down to the beach.
128 II, VI | between the house and the cape sometimes whirled a huge
129 II, VI | sensibly altered all the time. Cape Bathurst still pointed to
130 II, VI | Hobson determined to go to Cape Michael, however terrible
131 II, VII | however, we can get to Cape Michael before midnight,
132 II, VII | in a straight line from Cape Bathurst to Cape Michael,
133 II, VII | line from Cape Bathurst to Cape Michael, and he was provided
134 II, VII | were still six miles from Cape Michael.~“We are going to
135 II, VII | the wood between us and Cape Michael.”~“Then it is”——~“
136 II, VII | large wood which shut in Cape Michael. This they would
137 II, VII | at last, a few feet from Cape Michael, and as we came
138 II, VIII | at once turned towards Cape Bathurst.~The wind, being
139 II, VIII | line straight across near Cape Michael and what was formerly
140 II, VIII | along the coast towards Cape Esquimaux. She wished to
141 II, VIII | provisions.~After leaving Cape Bathurst they turned to
142 II, VIII | the rising ground above Cape Esquimaux, but at least
143 II, VIII | find out the exact state of Cape Esquimaux. She was anxious
144 II, VIII | eight or nine miles from Cape Bathurst already, and that
145 II, VIII | on the ground led towards Cape Esquimaux. And the two carefully
146 II, VIII | were only a few yards from Cape Esquimaux, which now rose
147 II, VIII | them to the right of the cape, and running along they
148 II, VIII | seen. At the foot of the cape, where the slight ascent
149 II, VIII | about fifty paces from Cape Esquimaux, a large white
150 II, VIII | seemed as if the whole of Cape Esquimaux were about to
151 II, IX | British America which is near Cape Bathurst. She at once recognised
152 II, IX | an almost straight line. Cape Esquimaux and Cape Bathurst
153 II, IX | line. Cape Esquimaux and Cape Bathurst had alike disappeared.~
154 II, IX | tribes of North America, that Cape Bathurst did not form part
155 II, IX | Hobson at the foot of the cape. But with the unfortunate
156 II, IX | quite sure that all trace of Cape Bathurst was gone, she explored
157 II, IX | at the fisheries near Icy Cape, a point a little above
158 II, IX | than six hundred miles from Cape Bathurst.~Nothing worthy
159 II, IX | was equally violent at Icy Cape and on Victoria Island,
160 II, IX | storm the Esquimaux of Icy Cape were confined to their huts.
161 II, IX | beach at the summit of Icy Cape.~This was the fire which
162 II, IX | had seen when crouching on Cape Michael on the night of
163 II, IX | she had at last recognised Cape Esquimaux, at the foot of
164 II, IX | presentiment which made them visit Cape Esquimaux after they had
165 II, IX | place in the country around Cape Bathurst, and to set at
166 II, X | of the districts between Cape Bathurst and Walruses’ Bay?~
167 II, X | related what had happened at Cape Esquimaux, and the important
168 II, X | up. What had happened at Cape Esquimaux might at any moment
169 II, X | moment be reproduced at Cape Bathurst. At any hour of
170 II, X | across the extremity of Cape Bathurst, and beyond which
171 II, X | cardinal points of the island. Cape Bathurst no longer pointed
172 II, X | palisades on different parts of Cape Bathurst, and Marbre and
173 II, X | which to browse, roved about Cape Bathurst in herds. A solitary
174 II, X | offing; one day they went to Cape Michael, another to the
175 II, X | separated us from the continent. Cape Bathurst has broken away
176 II, XII | converted the districts round Cape Bathurst into an island.
177 II, XII | hollowed out of the cliffs of Cape Michael was partly filled
178 II, XII | converted the districts round Cape Bathurst into an island.
179 II, XII | hollowed out of the cliffs of Cape Michael was partly filled
180 II, XII | walked heavily on towards Cape Michael, and soon disappeared
181 II, XII | the coast every day from Cape Michael to what was once
182 II, XIII | wended their way towards Cape Michael, where they would
183 II, XIII | round for the last time at Cape Bathurst, which they were
184 II, XIII | the detachment arrived at Cape Michael, after having rounded
185 II, XIII | between Fort Reliance and Cape Bathurst; but on a distorted
186 II, XIV | January Kalumah walked to Cape Bathurst to examine the
187 II, XIV | the hunters hurried to Cape Bathurst, and whilst the
188 II, XV | violence, and on the side of Cape Bathurst and the chain of
189 II, XV | to be a danger that the cape itself-which was but a kind
190 II, XV | fortunately for the factory the cape retained its position; had
191 II, XV | March aid turned towards Cape Michael.~The thermometer
192 II, XV | party descended the slope of Cape Michael and made their way
193 II, XV | not three miles from the cape.~The march was of course
194 II, XV | owing to the height of Cape Michael crowned with trees,
195 II, XV | certainly in our favour. Cape Bathurst and Fort Hope are
196 II, XV | the waters flow between Cape East on the Asiatic side
197 II, XV | on the Asiatic side and Cape Prince of Wales on the American.~
198 II, XV | the thaw, unless indeed Cape Bathurst should prove a
199 II, XV | climbed to the summit of Cape Bathurst, and saw that a
200 II, XV | the island overlooked by Cape Bathurst, the blocks of
201 II, XVII | taken place on the island at Cape Esquimaux, Cape Michael,
202 II, XVII | island at Cape Esquimaux, Cape Michael, along the coast,
203 II, XVII | gulf which had opened near Cape Michael during the storm
204 II, XVII | especially at the foot of Cape Bathurst, and on the shores
205 II, XVII | west twelve points, so that Cape Bathurst pointed to the
206 II, XVII | bounded on the south by Cape Prince of Wales, which might,
207 II, XVII | quarter of its circumference. Cape Bathurst now pointed due
208 II, XVII | at least forty miles from Cape Prince of Wales, so that
209 II, XVII | between Port Barnett and Cape Michael. They followed the
210 II, XVII | the coast of the island. Cape Bathurst no longer existed,
211 II, XVII | built at the foot of the cape was completely destroyed.
212 II, XVIII| coast between the former Cape Bathurst and Cape Esquimaux
213 II, XVIII| former Cape Bathurst and Cape Esquimaux was not only hemmed
214 II, XVIII| that part of the coast near Cape Bathurst, it was evidently
215 II, XVIII| by the districts around Cape Bathurst! The horizon was
216 II, XVIII| We have already said that Cape Bathurst no longer existed.
217 II, XIX | was but a moment before Cape Bathurst, completely covered
218 II, XIX | portion of which had crushed Cape Bathurst whilst the submerged
219 II, XIX | in Norton Sound, between Cape Tchaplin on the Asiatic
220 II, XIX | Tchaplin on the Asiatic and Cape Stephens on the American
221 II, XIX | Icebergs have been seen off the Cape of Good Hope, at about thirty-six
222 II, XIX | island between the former Cape Bathurst and Port Barnett.
223 II, XX | party.~The wide gulf near Cape Michael, which the winter
224 II, XX | the whole district between Cape Michael and Port Barnett,
225 II, XX | it was found that, near Cape Bathurst, not only was the
226 II, XX | saw the sun rise above Cape Esquimaux instead of above
227 II, XXII | district once belonging to Cape Bathurst had silently floated
228 II, XXII | had taken place between Cape Bathurst and Cape Esquimaux,
229 II, XXII | between Cape Bathurst and Cape Esquimaux, that is to say,
230 II, XXII | of eight miles. It was at Cape Esquimaux that the fracture
231 II, XXII | far as the coast, between Cape Bathurst and what was once
232 II, XXII | way between the camp and Cape Esquimaux. The superficial
233 II, XXII | no longer wandered from Cape Bathurst, and the furred
234 II, XXII | of the engulfed house and Cape Bathurst. It was now merely
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