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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... of the weather having rendered the night so dark that we could not fee half the fhip's length , I brought to for the boat , and was indeed , with good reafon , 1767 . April . reafon , under great concern for 12 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... of the weather having rendered the night so dark that we could not fee half the fhip's length , I brought to for the boat , and was indeed , with good reafon , 1767 . April . reafon , under great concern for 12 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... brought under our courfes by a hurricane from the N. by W. and . N. N. W. and the fhip was toffed about with fuch violence that we had no command of her . During this ftorm , two of our chain- plates were broken , and we continued ...
... brought under our courfes by a hurricane from the N. by W. and . N. N. W. and the fhip was toffed about with fuch violence that we had no command of her . During this ftorm , two of our chain- plates were broken , and we continued ...
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... brought to , however , as near the shore as poffible , for the advantage of smooth water to unload the cutter , which foon after came along - fide with twelve casks of water . As foon as we had taken thefe on board , I fent the 1767 ...
... brought to , however , as near the shore as poffible , for the advantage of smooth water to unload the cutter , which foon after came along - fide with twelve casks of water . As foon as we had taken thefe on board , I fent the 1767 ...
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... brought to as near the shore as poffible , to favour their coming on board : they presently made towards us , and we hoifted them in , but the sea was now rifen so high , that in doing it they received confiderable damage , and we foon ...
... brought to as near the shore as poffible , to favour their coming on board : they presently made towards us , and we hoifted them in , but the sea was now rifen so high , that in doing it they received confiderable damage , and we foon ...
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... brought her freight of water on board . I inquired of the lieutenant after the people on fhore , and he told me , that the violent rain which had fallen in the night , had fuddenly brought down fuch torrents of water through the hollow ...
... brought her freight of water on board . I inquired of the lieutenant after the people on fhore , and he told me , that the violent rain which had fallen in the night , had fuddenly brought down fuch torrents of water through the hollow ...
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