Sentence examples for on a second expedition from inspiring English sources

On a second expedition, attempting to follow its course to the mouth, he was drowned near Bussa, in what is now Nigeria.

Around 975, over his wife's objections, Olaf went on a second expedition to Norway.

In 1937 Beebe went on a second expedition aboard the Zaca, documenting the native wildlife along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Colombia.

The shallop was finished on November 27, and using it, a second expedition was undertaken, under the direction of Mayflower master Christopher Jones.

A veteran of many climbs was, on average, no more or no less likely to die on a climb than a mountaineer on a first expedition to the region.

On a second overland expedition to the same region (1825 27), Franklin led a party that explored the North American coast westward from the mouth of the Mackenzie River, in northwestern Canada, to Point Beechey, now in Alaska.

In 1925, Beebe set out on a second Galápagos expedition, backed by Williams and several other donors.

Anyone who wants to do this, says an American pastry chef on her second expedition, has to have a screw loose.

The promontory was visited in 1798 by the English explorer George Bass and was first called Furneaux Land, named for a crew member on the second expedition (1772) of Captain James Cook.

On his second expedition, to what is now Canada's Northwest Territories (1829 33), Ross discovered and surveyed Boothia Peninsula, King William Island, and the Gulf of Boothia.

"A keen mountaineer who had scaled several of the world's highest peaks, John was on his second expedition to Everest, having been beaten back by bad weather on his first attempt five years ago," the statement said.