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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... bottom , which was not even filled with nails to fupply the want of a cover- ing that would more effectually keep out the worm . I had been given to underftand that I was to go out with the Dolphin ; but the dif- parity of the two fhips ...
... bottom , which was not even filled with nails to fupply the want of a cover- ing that would more effectually keep out the worm . I had been given to underftand that I was to go out with the Dolphin ; but the dif- parity of the two fhips ...
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... islands a very good harbour , with anchorage in between . twenty - five and thirty fathom , with a bottom of foft mud . We anchored without the islands , the the paffage on each fide of them being not more 14 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... islands a very good harbour , with anchorage in between . twenty - five and thirty fathom , with a bottom of foft mud . We anchored without the islands , the the paffage on each fide of them being not more 14 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... ground with all the fail we could spread , and happily regained it about four o'clock in the afternoon , when we anchored , at two cables ' length from the beach , 1767 . May . eighteen fathom , with a bottom D 2 in ' ROUND THE WORLD . 35.
... ground with all the fail we could spread , and happily regained it about four o'clock in the afternoon , when we anchored , at two cables ' length from the beach , 1767 . May . eighteen fathom , with a bottom D 2 in ' ROUND THE WORLD . 35.
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... bottom of fine fand , and moored with a small anchor in fhore . By Wednef . 20. the time the ship was properly fecured , it was too late to proceed with our watering ; the long- boat however was fent along the shore to fish , and though ...
... bottom of fine fand , and moored with a small anchor in fhore . By Wednef . 20. the time the ship was properly fecured , it was too late to proceed with our watering ; the long- boat however was fent along the shore to fish , and though ...
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... bottom ; but that all hands bailing with the utmost diligence and activity , they happily cleared her : that he then made for the land again , which , with the utmoft difficulty , he regained , and .having left a fufficient number on ...
... bottom ; but that all hands bailing with the utmost diligence and activity , they happily cleared her : that he then made for the land again , which , with the utmoft difficulty , he regained , and .having left a fufficient number on ...
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