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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... feemed moft heartily willing to expiate their fault ; but I asked them what could have in- duced them to quit the fhip , and defert the fer- vice of their country , at the risk of being de- voured by sharks , or dashed to pieces by the ...
... feemed moft heartily willing to expiate their fault ; but I asked them what could have in- duced them to quit the fhip , and defert the fer- vice of their country , at the risk of being de- voured by sharks , or dashed to pieces by the ...
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... feemed very much to approve ; but , ob- ferving that with a skinful of liquor they would have been in a very unfit condition to swim through the furf to the fhip , I told them that hoping they would for the future expose their lives ...
... feemed very much to approve ; but , ob- ferving that with a skinful of liquor they would have been in a very unfit condition to swim through the furf to the fhip , I told them that hoping they would for the future expose their lives ...
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... feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided by enclosures from each other ; we faw alfo two large boats lying on the beach . The gufts of wind which came right out of this bay , pre- vented my going fo near as I intended , for ...
... feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided by enclosures from each other ; we faw alfo two large boats lying on the beach . The gufts of wind which came right out of this bay , pre- vented my going fo near as I intended , for ...
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... feemed to be uninhabited ; it was , however , covered with trees , and we saw a small stream of fresh water running down one fide of it . I would have landed upon it , but the surf , which at this season broke upon it with great ...
... feemed to be uninhabited ; it was , however , covered with trees , and we saw a small stream of fresh water running down one fide of it . I would have landed upon it , but the surf , which at this season broke upon it with great ...
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... feemed to have fish . It lies in latitude 25 ° 2 ' S. , longitude 133 ° 21 ′ W. , and about a thousand leagues to the weftward of the continent of America . It is fo high that we saw it at the distance of more than fifteen leagues , and ...
... feemed to have fish . It lies in latitude 25 ° 2 ' S. , longitude 133 ° 21 ′ W. , and about a thousand leagues to the weftward of the continent of America . It is fo high that we saw it at the distance of more than fifteen leagues , and ...
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