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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... fent me five hundred weight . This quantity however was fo inadequate to my wants , that I was foon afterwards reduced to the disagreeable neceffity of cutting off fome of my cables to fave my rigging . On the 9th , very early in the ...
... fent me five hundred weight . This quantity however was fo inadequate to my wants , that I was foon afterwards reduced to the disagreeable neceffity of cutting off fome of my cables to fave my rigging . On the 9th , very early in the ...
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... fent me word , that all of them having , to the great astonishment of the natives , been found naked on the beach , they had been taken into cuftody , and would be delivered up to my order . The boat was dif- patched immediately , and ...
... fent me word , that all of them having , to the great astonishment of the natives , been found naked on the beach , they had been taken into cuftody , and would be delivered up to my order . The boat was dif- patched immediately , and ...
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... fent the mafter again , out in Sunday 12 . the cutter , in fearch of an anchorage on the fouth fhore . I waited in a state of the most painful suspense for her return , till five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we should be ...
... fent the mafter again , out in Sunday 12 . the cutter , in fearch of an anchorage on the fouth fhore . I waited in a state of the most painful suspense for her return , till five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we should be ...
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... fent out both the boats to endeavour to get fome water , but they found it impoffible to land , for the beach is rocky , and the furf at this time was fo great , that the swim- mers could not get through the breakers : this was the more ...
... fent out both the boats to endeavour to get fome water , but they found it impoffible to land , for the beach is rocky , and the furf at this time was fo great , that the swim- mers could not get through the breakers : this was the more ...
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... fent the cutter to get off a load of water , before the furf fhould be fo great upon the beach as to prevent her landing . About ten o'clock , the wind came to the N. N. E. which enabled us to get within a little diftance of the ...
... fent the cutter to get off a load of water , before the furf fhould be fo great upon the beach as to prevent her landing . About ten o'clock , the wind came to the N. N. E. which enabled us to get within a little diftance of the ...
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