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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... distance from the coaft , but if there had been many islands in that fituation , it is impoffible but that the Dolphin , the Tamar , or the Swallow , muft have seen them , as we ran near their fuppofed meridian , and fo did the Dolphin ...
... distance from the coaft , but if there had been many islands in that fituation , it is impoffible but that the Dolphin , the Tamar , or the Swallow , muft have seen them , as we ran near their fuppofed meridian , and fo did the Dolphin ...
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... distance from the land , fhe went in Sunday 10. again . We then opened West Bay , on the east part of which , clofe to the fea fide , is a fmall houfe , which I took for a guard - house , and two pieces of cannon mounted upon their ...
... distance from the land , fhe went in Sunday 10. again . We then opened West Bay , on the east part of which , clofe to the fea fide , is a fmall houfe , which I took for a guard - house , and two pieces of cannon mounted upon their ...
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... distance from land , I ven- tured to send our long boat , a clumfy , heavy , Saturday 16 . four - oared veffel , with provifions for the people on shore , and orders to bring back a load of wa- ter , if he could get it : as foon as ...
... distance from land , I ven- tured to send our long boat , a clumfy , heavy , Saturday 16 . four - oared veffel , with provifions for the people on shore , and orders to bring back a load of wa- ter , if he could get it : as foon as ...
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... distance from the watering - place , to fend the cutter for another load . In the mean time I stood on and off with the fhip , and about four o'clock in the afternoon the cutter brought her freight of water on board . I inquired of the ...
... distance from the watering - place , to fend the cutter for another load . In the mean time I stood on and off with the fhip , and about four o'clock in the afternoon the cutter brought her freight of water on board . I inquired of the ...
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... distance from the watering - place where their fhip - mates had a tent , without food , and with- out shelter , in a night of violent and inceffant rain , with fuch thunder and lightning as in Europe " May . Sunday 17 . Europe is ...
... distance from the watering - place where their fhip - mates had a tent , without food , and with- out shelter , in a night of violent and inceffant rain , with fuch thunder and lightning as in Europe " May . Sunday 17 . Europe is ...
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