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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... called Nova Britannia into two Islands , with a De- fcription of feveral small Islands that lie in the Paffage , and the Land on each fide , with the In- habitants . CHAP . VII . 98 The Paffage from Saint George's Channel to the Iland ...
... called Nova Britannia into two Islands , with a De- fcription of feveral small Islands that lie in the Paffage , and the Land on each fide , with the In- habitants . CHAP . VII . 98 The Paffage from Saint George's Channel to the Iland ...
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... Circumnavigation of the Island , and various Incidents that happened during the Expedition ; with a Defcription of a Burying- place and Place of Worship , called a Morai , 425 AN ACCOUNT OF A Voyage round the World , IN 4 AN CONTENTS .
... Circumnavigation of the Island , and various Incidents that happened during the Expedition ; with a Defcription of a Burying- place and Place of Worship , called a Morai , 425 AN ACCOUNT OF A Voyage round the World , IN 4 AN CONTENTS .
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... called Westminster Hall , from its refemblance to that building in a diftant view . The western point of this bay makes a very remarkable appearance , being a perpendicular plane like the wall of a house . There are three iflands about ...
... called Westminster Hall , from its refemblance to that building in a diftant view . The western point of this bay makes a very remarkable appearance , being a perpendicular plane like the wall of a house . There are three iflands about ...
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... called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now run back again into the Streight , without falling down among the broken land , and incurring the dangers of the northern fhore , which was to leeward ; towards this broken land ...
... called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now run back again into the Streight , without falling down among the broken land , and incurring the dangers of the northern fhore , which was to leeward ; towards this broken land ...
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... called Eastern Island , which fome have imagined to be a confirmation of Davis's discovery , and the fame land to which his name has been given . It is manifeft from Wafer's narrative , that little credit is due to the account kept on ...
... called Eastern Island , which fome have imagined to be a confirmation of Davis's discovery , and the fame land to which his name has been given . It is manifeft from Wafer's narrative , that little credit is due to the account kept on ...
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