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1 I, II | difficult, unless the North-west passage discovered by Mc’Clure be
2 I, II | enterprise, if this North-west passage can really be used,” replied
3 I, II | means of the North-west passage.”~Mrs Paulina Barnett was
4 I, III | Long hastened to the narrow passage from which opened the outer
5 I, V | solid—a good thing for the passage of sledges, of which Jaspar
6 I, V | cries of a few birds of passage alone broke the monotony
7 I, VI | evidently the result of the passage of about half-a-dozen large
8 I, X | seeking? The famous North-West Passage?”~“No, madam,” replied the
9 I, X | and could not be, a sea passage between the oceans.”~“That
10 I, X | for the discovery of the passage in question. In that year
11 I, X | discovering the much-longed-for passage. But they were unsuccessful,
12 I, X | the more or less recent passage of native hunters. Hobson
13 I, XV | summer season the North-West Passage to Cape Bathurst would,
14 I, XVII | enough to have allowed of the passage of a park of artillery,
15 I, XVIII| windows at the end of the passage on that side should be opened.~
16 I, XVIII| half-an-hour to clear a passage, and then every one in the
17 I, XIX | creep through a kind of passage three or four feet long,
18 I, XX | converted into snow, and in the passage the breathing of the inmates
19 I, XX | outside the window of the passage marked 66° below zero. A
20 I, XXI | the end of the entrance passage. The outside shutters had
21 I, XXI | ordered the window of the passage to be barricaded inside;
22 I, XXI | rushed to the ladder in the passage, which. communicated with
23 I, XXI | just gone out, and into the passage. Rae climbed up to the trap-door
24 I, XXI | arrived.~One door of the passage was open, and in spite of
25 I, XXI | suspension in the air of the passage covered the walls and the
26 I, XXI | and Rae went back to the passage and closed the second door,
27 I, XXI | together towards the end of the passage.~Meanwhile Rae had been
28 I, XXI | and carried him into the passage; but as the Lieutenant was
29 I, XXI | would force its way into the passage in another moment. “No,
30 I, XXI | blacksmith rushed into the passage, scaled the ladder, and
31 I, XXI | destroyed. All rushed into the passage and made for the ladder,
32 II, II | zone, called the North-West Passage since McClure’s daring discovery—
33 II, II | same parallel as McClure’s Passage, and probably doing much
34 II, IV | and hollowed out a kind of passage sloping gently down to the
35 II, IV | And creeping through the passage, he was soon at the edge
36 II, VII | large room and gained the passage, where they found Mrs Barnett,
37 II, VII | branches intercepted their passage, and every moment they ran
38 II, VIII | the narrowest part of the passage.~The situation was, therefore,
39 II, X | its suitability for the passage of sledges, and the best
40 II, X | explorers of the North West Passage, or the seekers of the North
41 II, XII | this time. As soon as the passage of the ice-field became
42 II, XIII | for any one to attempt the passage; he would not succeed, he
43 II, XV | from the widest part of the passage. There was then nothing
44 II, XV | they would try and find a passage across the chain of icebergs.
45 II, XV | no footprints told of the passage of man or beast, and the
46 II, XV | irregularities which now barred their passage did not exist early in the
47 II, XV | the chain of icebergs. The passage was therefore proved to
48 II, XV | quickly enough to allow of the passage of Mac-Nab’s boat after
49 II, XV | difficult and dangerous passage, is no longer between us
50 II, XVII | ice should allow of the passage of the boat, which was to
51 II, XVII | stationary near the middle of the passage, at least forty miles from
52 II, XVII | hoping that a practicable passage might have been opened.~
53 II, XVII | there was even now no free passage between the ice-masses—it
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