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English: Title: Arrival of the good ship Harmony

Identifier: truetalesoftrave00macarich (find matches)
Title: True tales of travel and adventure, valour and virtue
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Macaulay, James, 1817-1902
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e. The gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society was presented to her as an honourable recognition of her husbands services in discovering the North-West Passage, and the monuments in Westminster Abbey and Waterloo Place recall the memory of Franklin, Crozier, Fitzjames, and their gallant comrades,who fell in the execution of a duty which had been assigned to them by their countrymen. The services of MClintock,with the good ship Fox^ will always hold an honourable place in the records of Arctic voyages and travels. PERILS IN THE ICE. IN the year 1770 the Society of the Moravian Brethren first established mission stations on the coast of Labrador. Every year since that date a ship has been sent from the Thames, sometimes for the conveyance of passengers, but always for carrying the stores necessary for the life and comfort of the dwellers in those remote settlements. The records of these voyages are preserved in the Periodical Accounts published by the Society. Many remarkable events appear in
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Arrival of the good ship Harmony. Perils in the Ice, 97 these records, the ships having been often exposed to great perils, and having met with memorable adventures, in times both of war and peace. Through the protection of Divine Providence, in all the years that have passed, the voyage has been made in safety, although the ships have encountered the dangers common to those seas and coasts. One of the most perilous voyages was that of the year 1817, in the Jemima, the predecessor of successive ships which, under the name of the Harmony, have continued the voyages from 1818 to the present time. The Jemima reached Stromness from London on the 14th of June, and thence had a favourable voyage across the Atlantic. Up to the end of June all went well, but a few days later the record, as given by Brother Kmoch, a veteran missionary who was on board, bears a more stirring character :— Between the 4th and 5th of July we heard and saw many ice-birds. This bird is about the size of a starling, black,

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  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
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