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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... danger to which it expofed us ; but at day - break the next morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could perceive , however , that he had ftudding fails fet , and at nine o'clock ...
... danger to which it expofed us ; but at day - break the next morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could perceive , however , that he had ftudding fails fet , and at nine o'clock ...
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... danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to fhorten fail , it being neceffary to carry all we could spread , in order to weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now ...
... danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to fhorten fail , it being neceffary to carry all we could spread , in order to weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now ...
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... danger of being loft ; we got them up , however , with great difficulty , and immediately fet the fails , and worked under the lee of the island , keeping as near the shore as we could ; the weather foon afterwards became more moderate ...
... danger of being loft ; we got them up , however , with great difficulty , and immediately fet the fails , and worked under the lee of the island , keeping as near the shore as we could ; the weather foon afterwards became more moderate ...
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... danger of being swept away before it , and though with great difficulty they faved themselves , feveral of the casks were en- tirely loft . It was now too late for the boat to make another turn to the place where we had hitherto got our ...
... danger of being swept away before it , and though with great difficulty they faved themselves , feveral of the casks were en- tirely loft . It was now too late for the boat to make another turn to the place where we had hitherto got our ...
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... danger of being devoured by a fhark . About ten o'clock in the morning , however , they reached the tents , almoft perifhed with hunger and cold , and were received with equal furprise and joy by their fhip - mates , who immediately ...
... danger of being devoured by a fhark . About ten o'clock in the morning , however , they reached the tents , almoft perifhed with hunger and cold , and were received with equal furprise and joy by their fhip - mates , who immediately ...
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