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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... still of opinion , that the voyage fhould be prosecuted by the two ships jointly , pursuant to the orders that had been given . The Swallow was now become fo foul , that with all the fail fhe could fet , fhe could not make fo much way ...
... still of opinion , that the voyage fhould be prosecuted by the two ships jointly , pursuant to the orders that had been given . The Swallow was now become fo foul , that with all the fail fhe could fet , fhe could not make fo much way ...
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... still under the land , had but light and variable airs . From this time , I gave up all hope of seeing the Dol- phin again till we fhould arrive in England , no plan of operation having been fettled , nor any place of rendezvous ...
... still under the land , had but light and variable airs . From this time , I gave up all hope of seeing the Dol- phin again till we fhould arrive in England , no plan of operation having been fettled , nor any place of rendezvous ...
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... still more violent , and much rain and hail , or rather fragments of half melted ice : at intervals also we had thunder and lightning , more dreadful than all the paft , and a fea which frequently laid the whole veffel under water ...
... still more violent , and much rain and hail , or rather fragments of half melted ice : at intervals also we had thunder and lightning , more dreadful than all the paft , and a fea which frequently laid the whole veffel under water ...
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... the weather being more moderate , though the wind was still con- trary , we repaired our rigging , and the carpen- ters fixed a new dead eye where the old one had been C 4 1767 . May . Tuesday 5 . been broken ; ROUND THE WORLD . 23.
... the weather being more moderate , though the wind was still con- trary , we repaired our rigging , and the carpen- ters fixed a new dead eye where the old one had been C 4 1767 . May . Tuesday 5 . been broken ; ROUND THE WORLD . 23.
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... still be preferved ; for this reafon , I determined to regain the land as foon as poffible . At midnight , the weather became more moderate , fo that we could carry our courses and top - fails , and at four o'clock in the morning we ...
... still be preferved ; for this reafon , I determined to regain the land as foon as poffible . At midnight , the weather became more moderate , fo that we could carry our courses and top - fails , and at four o'clock in the morning we ...
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