An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 |
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... ordered to profecute the design of making dif- coveries in the South Seas . What was effected by these vef- fels in their several voyages , will appear in the course of this work , of which it is now neceffary to give fome account . It ...
... ordered to profecute the design of making dif- coveries in the South Seas . What was effected by these vef- fels in their several voyages , will appear in the course of this work , of which it is now neceffary to give fome account . It ...
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... ordered the two fore- most , and two aftermoft guns to be thrown overboard : the gale continued with nearly equal violence all the rest of the day , and all night , so that we were obliged to lie to under a double - reefed main fail ...
... ordered the two fore- most , and two aftermoft guns to be thrown overboard : the gale continued with nearly equal violence all the rest of the day , and all night , so that we were obliged to lie to under a double - reefed main fail ...
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... ordered the topfails to be handed immediately ; but before it could be done , I faw the fea approaching at some distance , in vaft billows covered with foam ; I called to the people to hawl up the forefail , and let go the main sheet ...
... ordered the topfails to be handed immediately ; but before it could be done , I faw the fea approaching at some distance , in vaft billows covered with foam ; I called to the people to hawl up the forefail , and let go the main sheet ...
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... ordered out two boats to found the harbour , and attended in my own boat myself . We found it very narrow for near two miles , with a tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the ...
... ordered out two boats to found the harbour , and attended in my own boat myself . We found it very narrow for near two miles , with a tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the ...
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... ordered out my twelve oar'd boat , and went towards the beach , with Mr. Marshall , my Second Lieutenant , and a party of men , very well armed ; Mr. Cumming , my First Lieutenant , fol- lowing in the fix oar'd cutter . When we came ...
... ordered out my twelve oar'd boat , and went towards the beach , with Mr. Marshall , my Second Lieutenant , and a party of men , very well armed ; Mr. Cumming , my First Lieutenant , fol- lowing in the fix oar'd cutter . When we came ...
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