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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... December . Port Famine , on Friday the 26th of December , Friday 26 . At 1766 . December . At this place we unhung our 8- CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... December . Port Famine , on Friday the 26th of December , Friday 26 . At 1766 . December . At this place we unhung our 8- CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... December . At this place we unhung our rudder , and added a piece of wood to it , in hopes that by making it broader , we should obtain fome advantage in Friday 26 working the fhip ; in which however we were altogether difappointed ...
... December . At this place we unhung our rudder , and added a piece of wood to it , in hopes that by making it broader , we should obtain fome advantage in Friday 26 working the fhip ; in which however we were altogether difappointed ...
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... December . cember , when we fell in with the small islands and fhoals called the Little Pater - nofters , the southermoft of which , according to my account , lies in latitude 2o 31 ′ S. and the northermost in 2 ° 15 ′ S. the longitude ...
... December . cember , when we fell in with the small islands and fhoals called the Little Pater - nofters , the southermoft of which , according to my account , lies in latitude 2o 31 ′ S. and the northermost in 2 ° 15 ′ S. the longitude ...
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... December , Thurfd . 3 . peftuous weather and contrary winds , with fud- den and impetuous gufts , which , as we had not a number of hands fufficient to bend the fails , often endangered our mafts and yards , and did great damage to our ...
... December , Thurfd . 3 . peftuous weather and contrary winds , with fud- den and impetuous gufts , which , as we had not a number of hands fufficient to bend the fails , often endangered our mafts and yards , and did great damage to our ...
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... December . ror . This fudden attack , however , rather roused than depreffed us , and though our ene my attempted to board us , before we could Thurfd , 10 . have the leaft apprehenfion that an enemy was 1 near , we defeated his purpofe ...
... December . ror . This fudden attack , however , rather roused than depreffed us , and though our ene my attempted to board us , before we could Thurfd , 10 . have the leaft apprehenfion that an enemy was 1 near , we defeated his purpofe ...
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