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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... continued therefore for fome time to navigate the Streight together , and as I had paffed it before , I was ordered to keep a - head and lead the way , with liberty to anchor and weigh when I thought proper ; but perceiving that the bad ...
... continued therefore for fome time to navigate the Streight together , and as I had paffed it before , I was ordered to keep a - head and lead the way , with liberty to anchor and weigh when I thought proper ; but perceiving that the bad ...
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... continued in company , however , till Friday the 10th of Friday 10 . April , when the western entrance of the Streight was open , and the great South Sea in fight . Hitherto I had , purfuant to my directions , kept a - head April . 1767 ...
... continued in company , however , till Friday the 10th of Friday 10 . April , when the western entrance of the Streight was open , and the great South Sea in fight . Hitherto I had , purfuant to my directions , kept a - head April . 1767 ...
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... immediately afterwards , the wind came again to the S. W. , and if it had continued in that quarter , our destruction would have been inevitable . CHAP . CHA P. II . The Paffage from Cape Pillar , 18 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... immediately afterwards , the wind came again to the S. W. , and if it had continued in that quarter , our destruction would have been inevitable . CHAP . CHA P. II . The Paffage from Cape Pillar , 18 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... continued unfavourable , and blew a continued ftorm , with fudden gufts still more violent , and much rain and hail , or rather fragments of half melted ice : at intervals also we had thunder and lightning , more dreadful than all the ...
... continued unfavourable , and blew a continued ftorm , with fudden gufts still more violent , and much rain and hail , or rather fragments of half melted ice : at intervals also we had thunder and lightning , more dreadful than all the ...
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... continued feveral hours , but before morn- ing it veered again to the N. W. and continued in that quarter till the afternoon of the 29th , Wednel , 29 , when it died away , and we had a dead calm for fix hours . During this time we had ...
... continued feveral hours , but before morn- ing it veered again to the N. W. and continued in that quarter till the afternoon of the 29th , Wednel , 29 , when it died away , and we had a dead calm for fix hours . During this time we had ...
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