id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39917 Rae, John Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 .txt text/plain 71748 6273 90 snow-houses--Christmas-day--North Pole River frozen to the left the creek at 4 A.M., and ran 32½ miles before a fine breeze of S.E. wind, through lanes of open water, as nearly as possible in a N.N.E. course. we set sail at 11 o'clock on the 5th July with a light air of N.N.E. wind, and stood to the westward across Button's Bay. The weather was favourable, and we stood over towards the north shore of Nevill's Bay. The temperature of the water at mid-day 37°, air 44°; latitude by Our landing place was a long rocky point having a deep ice-filled inlet coast near Point Hargrave--Ice rough along shore--Pass Cape Lady coast near Point Hargrave--Ice rough along shore--Pass Cape Lady much snow-drift; we however advanced seven miles farther, and at 4 P.M. built our night's lodgings on the ice, a few hundred yards from the ./cache/39917.txt ./txt/39917.txt