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: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 2W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... sent upon a fervice to which my veffel and her equipment were by no means equal , but I deter- mined at all events to perform it in the best manner I was able . We proceeded on our voyage without any remarkable event till we anchored ...
... sent upon a fervice to which my veffel and her equipment were by no means equal , but I deter- mined at all events to perform it in the best manner I was able . We proceeded on our voyage without any remarkable event till we anchored ...
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... sent our boat a - head to find out Tuesday's Bay , which is faid by Sir John Nar- borough to lie about four leagues within the Streight , or to find out any other place in which we might come to an anchor . At five o'clock , we could ...
... sent our boat a - head to find out Tuesday's Bay , which is faid by Sir John Nar- borough to lie about four leagues within the Streight , or to find out any other place in which we might come to an anchor . At five o'clock , we could ...
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... sent the boats away foon after it was light , and about ten , they re- turned with each of them a load of water , and a great number of pintado birds : thefe birds they got from the people on fhore , who told them , that when a gale of ...
... sent the boats away foon after it was light , and about ten , they re- turned with each of them a load of water , and a great number of pintado birds : thefe birds they got from the people on fhore , who told them , that when a gale of ...
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... sent the long - boat with ten men on board well armed to the fhore , who before eight o'clock brought off a tun of water . About nine , I fent her off again , but foon after seeing fome of the natives advancing along the shore towards ...
... sent the long - boat with ten men on board well armed to the fhore , who before eight o'clock brought off a tun of water . About nine , I fent her off again , but foon after seeing fome of the natives advancing along the shore towards ...
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... sent the boat on fhore , which the natives endeavoured to cut off , and hoftilities being thus commenced , we feized their canoe , in which we found about an hundred cocoa - nuts , which were very accept- able ; we saw fome turtle near ...
... sent the boat on fhore , which the natives endeavoured to cut off , and hoftilities being thus commenced , we feized their canoe , in which we found about an hundred cocoa - nuts , which were very accept- able ; we saw fome turtle near ...
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An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty ... John Byron,Cook,John Hawkesworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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