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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... clear of the Streight's mouth , but we , who were still under the land , had but light and variable airs . From this time , I gave up all hope of seeing the Dol- phin again till we fhould arrive in England , no plan of operation having ...
... clear of the Streight's mouth , but we , who were still under the land , had but light and variable airs . From this time , I gave up all hope of seeing the Dol- phin again till we fhould arrive in England , no plan of operation having ...
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... clear of the rocks . The land round this bay and harbour is all high , and as the current fets continually . into it , I doubt not but it has another commu- nication with the fea to the fouth of Cape De- feada . The mafter faid he went ...
... clear of the rocks . The land round this bay and harbour is all high , and as the current fets continually . into it , I doubt not but it has another commu- nication with the fea to the fouth of Cape De- feada . The mafter faid he went ...
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... clear the veffel , and to make her carry better fail , and at length happily escaped the danger which threatened us . After we got clear of these islands , and drew off from the Streight's mouth and the land , we found the fea run more ...
... clear the veffel , and to make her carry better fail , and at length happily escaped the danger which threatened us . After we got clear of these islands , and drew off from the Streight's mouth and the land , we found the fea run more ...
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... clear of the Streight , fteered to the northward along the coaft of Chili . Upon examining what quantity of fresh water we had now on board , I found that it amounted only to between four and five and twenty tons , which I thought not ...
... clear of the Streight , fteered to the northward along the coaft of Chili . Upon examining what quantity of fresh water we had now on board , I found that it amounted only to between four and five and twenty tons , which I thought not ...
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... clear the ground near the beach . of brushes and weeds , and cut down feveral trees of which they made rollers to affift them . in hauling up the boat , in order to fecure her ; intending , as they had no hope of the ship's re- turn to ...
... clear the ground near the beach . of brushes and weeds , and cut down feveral trees of which they made rollers to affift them . in hauling up the boat , in order to fecure her ; intending , as they had no hope of the ship's re- turn to ...
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