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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... fhip , having been in the fervice thirty years , and was in my opinion by no means fit for a long voyage , having only a flight thin fheathing upon her bottom , which was not even filled with nails to fupply the want of a cover- ing ...
... fhip , having been in the fervice thirty years , and was in my opinion by no means fit for a long voyage , having only a flight thin fheathing upon her bottom , which was not even filled with nails to fupply the want of a cover- ing ...
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... fhip , commanded Friday 22 . by Lieutenant James Brine . We proceeded together without any remarkable incident till the 7th of September , when we came to an anchor in Sunday 7 . Madeira road . While I lay at this place , not being yet ...
... fhip , commanded Friday 22 . by Lieutenant James Brine . We proceeded together without any remarkable incident till the 7th of September , when we came to an anchor in Sunday 7 . Madeira road . While I lay at this place , not being yet ...
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... fhip , and defert the fer- vice of their country , at the risk of being de- voured by sharks , or dashed to pieces by the surf against the fhore . They anfwered , that though they had indeed at fuch rifks ventured to fwim on fhore ...
... fhip , and defert the fer- vice of their country , at the risk of being de- voured by sharks , or dashed to pieces by the surf against the fhore . They anfwered , that though they had indeed at fuch rifks ventured to fwim on fhore ...
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... fhip , I told them that hoping they would for the future expose their lives only upon more important occafions , and that their conduct would thenceforward give me no cause of complaint , I would for this time . be fatisfied with the ...
... fhip , I told them that hoping they would for the future expose their lives only upon more important occafions , and that their conduct would thenceforward give me no cause of complaint , I would for this time . be fatisfied with the ...
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... fhip ; in which however we were altogether difappointed : After many difficulties and dangers , we got into Inland Bay on the 17th of February ; and before we made fail again , I represented the condition of my ship by letter to Captain ...
... fhip ; in which however we were altogether difappointed : After many difficulties and dangers , we got into Inland Bay on the 17th of February ; and before we made fail again , I represented the condition of my ship by letter to Captain ...
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