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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... feet and an half long , and the fharks were fo ravenous , that when we were founding one of them fwallowed the lead , by which we hauled him above water , but as he then difgorged it , we loft him . The seals were so numerous , that I ...
... feet and an half long , and the fharks were fo ravenous , that when we were founding one of them fwallowed the lead , by which we hauled him above water , but as he then difgorged it , we loft him . The seals were so numerous , that I ...
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... feet five inches long , and the arrows four feet four , which they dif- the charged 1 1767 . Auguft . charged in platoons , as regularly 66 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... feet five inches long , and the arrows four feet four , which they dif- the charged 1 1767 . Auguft . charged in platoons , as regularly 66 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... feet fix inches high , not in a ftraight line , but in angles , like a fortification ; and there is great reafon to fuppofe , from the weapons of thefe people , and their military courage , which muft in great measure be the effect of ...
... feet fix inches high , not in a ftraight line , but in angles , like a fortification ; and there is great reafon to fuppofe , from the weapons of thefe people , and their military courage , which muft in great measure be the effect of ...
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... feet , fometimes more , some- times lefs ; but I doubt whether this fluctuation is not rather the effect of the fea and land breeze , than of a regular tide . We anchored here 1767 . Auguft . 1767 . Auguft . September . Monday 7 . with ...
... feet , fometimes more , some- times lefs ; but I doubt whether this fluctuation is not rather the effect of the fea and land breeze , than of a regular tide . We anchored here 1767 . Auguft . 1767 . Auguft . September . Monday 7 . with ...
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... feet long , for it was very little shorter than the fhip ; it was , notwithstanding , formed of a fingle tree ; it had fome carved orna- ments about it , and was rowed or paddled by three and thirty men : we faw no appearance of fails ...
... feet long , for it was very little shorter than the fhip ; it was , notwithstanding , formed of a fingle tree ; it had fome carved orna- ments about it , and was rowed or paddled by three and thirty men : we faw no appearance of fails ...
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