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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... walking upon the water , like the peterels , to which failors . have given the name of Mother Carey's chickens ; and we faw alfo many of these . In 1767 . April . In the evening of Monday the 20 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... walking upon the water , like the peterels , to which failors . have given the name of Mother Carey's chickens ; and we faw alfo many of these . In 1767 . April . In the evening of Monday the 20 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... Monday the 27th , which was very dark , as we were standing to the weft - n ward under our courfes , and a clofe reefed Monday 27 . top - fail , the wind , in a hard fquall , fuddenly shifted , and took the veffel right a - head ; the ...
... Monday the 27th , which was very dark , as we were standing to the weft - n ward under our courfes , and a clofe reefed Monday 27 . top - fail , the wind , in a hard fquall , fuddenly shifted , and took the veffel right a - head ; the ...
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... Monday 4 . could , and the next day , 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 ...
... Monday 4 . could , and the next day , 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 ...
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... Monday 18 . On the 18th , the weather was moderate , and in the evening we were within half a mile of the anchoring - ground from which we had been driven ; but the wind fuddenly failing , and a current making against us , we could not ...
... Monday 18 . On the 18th , the weather was moderate , and in the evening we were within half a mile of the anchoring - ground from which we had been driven ; but the wind fuddenly failing , and a current making against us , we could not ...
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... Monday 18 . time employed in making a new mizen - gaff , out of a gib - boom , and in the mean while we were obliged to make fhift with the old one , keeping the fail balanced . It continued a ftark calm all the night , fo that in the ...
... Monday 18 . time employed in making a new mizen - gaff , out of a gib - boom , and in the mean while we were obliged to make fhift with the old one , keeping the fail balanced . It continued a ftark calm all the night , fo that in the ...
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