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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... fire , but ftill doubting whether they Saturd . 11 . could be seen through the fog and rain , I fired a gun every half hour , and at last had the fatis- faction to take her on board , though he had made no discovery either of Tuesday's ...
... fire , but ftill doubting whether they Saturd . 11 . could be seen through the fog and rain , I fired a gun every half hour , and at last had the fatis- faction to take her on board , though he had made no discovery either of Tuesday's ...
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... fire - wood , and a great number of goats upon the hills . 1767 . May . Tuesday 12 . The next morning , as foon as it was light , I Wednef . 13 . fent the boats out again , to examine any place where they could get on fhore . They ...
... fire - wood , and a great number of goats upon the hills . 1767 . May . Tuesday 12 . The next morning , as foon as it was light , I Wednef . 13 . fent the boats out again , to examine any place where they could get on fhore . They ...
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... fires , as a guide to the boat ; and not being able to account for her delay , I fuffered the most distressful anxiety , and had indeed but too much reason to fear that she was loft . About feven o'clock , however , to my unspeakable ...
... fires , as a guide to the boat ; and not being able to account for her delay , I fuffered the most distressful anxiety , and had indeed but too much reason to fear that she was loft . About feven o'clock , however , to my unspeakable ...
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... fire than they could well take them out , fo that during the gale of the last night , they got no less than seven hun- dred of them . The boats were employed in getting water on board all this day , although the furf was fo great that ...
... fire than they could well take them out , fo that during the gale of the last night , they got no less than seven hun- dred of them . The boats were employed in getting water on board all this day , although the furf was fo great that ...
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... ing her in . She had on board ten of my people , who informed me , that when they were first driven from the fhore , they had fome fire - wood not daring to show any on 1767 . May . Saturd . 23 . on board 38 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... ing her in . She had on board ten of my people , who informed me , that when they were first driven from the fhore , they had fome fire - wood not daring to show any on 1767 . May . Saturd . 23 . on board 38 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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