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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... supposed to be barracks for the garrison : five and twenty or thirty houfes of different kinds are fcattered round it , and we faw much cattle feeding on the brow of the hills , which feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided ...
... supposed to be barracks for the garrison : five and twenty or thirty houfes of different kinds are fcattered round it , and we faw much cattle feeding on the brow of the hills , which feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided ...
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... supposed ourselves to be near fome land , particularly feveral islands that are laid down in the charts , and one which was seen by Commo- dore Byron in 1765 , and called the Island of Danger ; none of these islands however could we fee ...
... supposed ourselves to be near fome land , particularly feveral islands that are laid down in the charts , and one which was seen by Commo- dore Byron in 1765 , and called the Island of Danger ; none of these islands however could we fee ...
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... supposed to belong to Carteret's Island , and to have brought the people hither only to fish . We sent the boat on fhore , which the natives endeavoured to cut off , and hoftilities being thus commenced , we feized their canoe , in ...
... supposed to belong to Carteret's Island , and to have brought the people hither only to fish . We sent the boat on fhore , which the natives endeavoured to cut off , and hoftilities being thus commenced , we feized their canoe , in ...
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... supposed bay to be a Streight , I called it SAINT GEORGE'S CHANNEL , and to the northern island I gave the name of Nova New Ire- HIBERNIA , or NEW IRELAND . The weather being hazey , with a strong gale and sudden gufts , I continued to ...
... supposed bay to be a Streight , I called it SAINT GEORGE'S CHANNEL , and to the northern island I gave the name of Nova New Ire- HIBERNIA , or NEW IRELAND . The weather being hazey , with a strong gale and sudden gufts , I continued to ...
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... is generally supposed to be , as well as of more extenfive influence ; it is indeed carried farther among these people than among any of the in- habitants H 4 1767 . September . Saturd , 12 . habitants of ROUND THE WORLD . 103.
... is generally supposed to be , as well as of more extenfive influence ; it is indeed carried farther among these people than among any of the in- habitants H 4 1767 . September . Saturd , 12 . habitants of ROUND THE WORLD . 103.
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