Category: Adventure
Join the Boats in the Methye River--Cross the Long Portage--Arrival at Fort Chipewyan--Departure from thence with the whole party for Mackenzie River--Arrangements at Fort Norman--Descent to the Sea--Return to the Winter Quarters at Great Bear Lake 23
Brief Notices of the Second Winter at Bear Lake--Traditions of the Dog-Ribs--Leave Fort Franklin--Winter Journey to Fort Chipewyan--Remarks on the progress of improvement in the...
10. CHAPTER I.Join the boats in the Methye River--Cross the Long Portage--Arrival to Fort Chipewyan--Departure from thence with the whole party for Mackenzie River--Arrangements at Fort Norma...
17. CHAPTER III.Double Cape Bathurst--Whales--Bituminous-shale Cliffs on Fire--Enter Franklin Bay--Heavy Gale--Peninsula of Cape Parry--Perforated Rock--Detention at Cape Lyon by Wind--Force of...
12. CHAPTER III.[Sidenote: Thursday, 22nd.] On our arrival at the Bear Lake River, we were mortified to find the ice drifting down in large masses, with such rapidity as to render embarkation u...
13. CHAPTER IV.Babbage River--Meet Natives at Herschel Island--Their Trade with the Russians, through the Western Esquimaux--Ascend Mount Conybeare--Boundary of the British Dominions on this C...
11. CHAPTER II.Mr. Dease having passed the winter of 1824-25 at the Big Island of Mackenzie, arrived here with fifteen Canadian voyagers, Beaulieu, the interpreter, and four Chipewyan hunters,...
14. CHAPTER V.Commence Return to the Mackenzie--Delayed again at Foggy Island--Ice packed on the Reefs near Beaufort Bay, and on the Coast about Clarence River--Pass the Channels near Hersche...
15. CHAPTER I.Leave Point Separation and descend the Eastern Channel of the Mackenzie--Arrive at Sacred Island--Esquimaux Graves--Interview with the Natives; their thievish disposition--Attem...
18. CHAPTER IV.Ascend the Coppermine River--Abandon the Boats and Stores--Commence the Land Journey--Cross the Copper Mountains and Height of Land--Meet Indians who bring Provisions--Arrive at...
16. CHAPTER II.Detention by wind--Visited by Esquimaux--Cross a large Stream of fresh Water--Winter Houses on Atkinson Island--Gale of Wind, and Fog--Run into Browell Cove--Double Cape Dalhous...
9. CHAPTER VI.Brief Notices of the Second Winter at Bear Lake--Traditions of the Dog-Ribs--Leave Fort Franklin--Winter Journey to Fort Chipewyan--Remarks on the progress of improvement in the...
4. CHAPTER V.Commence Return to the Mackenzie--Delayed again at Foggy Island--Ice packed on the Reefs near Beaufort Bay, and on the Coast about Clarence River--Pass the Channels near Hersche...
8. CHAPTER IV.Ascend the Coppermine River--Abandon the Boats and Stores--Commence the Land Journey--Cross the Copper Mountains and Height of Land--Meet Indians who bring Provisions--Arrive at...
7. CHAPTER III.Double Cape Bathurst--Whales--Bituminous-shale Cliffs on Fire--Enter Franklin Bay--Heavy Gale--Peninsula of Cape Parry--Perforated Rock--Detention at Cape Lyon by Wind--Force of...
5. CHAPTER I.Leave Point Separation, and descend the Eastern Channel of the Mackenzie--Arrive at Sacred Island--Esquimaux Graves--Interview with the Natives; their thievish disposition--Atte...
1. CHAPTER I.Join the Boats in the Methye River--Cross the Long Portage--Arrival at Fort Chipewyan--Departure from thence with the whole party for Mackenzie River--Arrangements at Fort Norma...
6. CHAPTER II.Detention by wind--Visited by the Esquimaux--Cross a large Stream of Fresh Water--Winter Houses on Atkinson Island--Gale of Wind and Fog--Run into Browell Cove--Double Cape Dalh...
3. CHAPTER IV.Babbage River--Meet Natives at Herschel Island--Their Trade with the Russians, through the Western Esquimaux--Ascend Mount Conybeare--Boundary of the British Dominions on this C...
2. CHAPTER III.