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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... fituation , it is impoffible but that the Dolphin , the Tamar , or the Swallow , muft have seen them , as we ran near their fuppofed meridian , and fo did the Dolphin and the Tamar the last voyage . Till we came into this latitude , we ...
... fituation , it is impoffible but that the Dolphin , the Tamar , or the Swallow , muft have seen them , as we ran near their fuppofed meridian , and fo did the Dolphin and the Tamar the last voyage . Till we came into this latitude , we ...
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... fituation I lay to under a ba- lanced mizen , firing guns , and burning false 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 ...
... fituation I lay to under a ba- lanced mizen , firing guns , and burning false 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 ...
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... fituation of thefe poor fellows now furnished another fubject of folicitude and anxiety ; they were naked , upon a defolate island , at a great distance from the watering - place where their fhip - mates had a tent , without food , and ...
... fituation of thefe poor fellows now furnished another fubject of folicitude and anxiety ; they were naked , upon a defolate island , at a great distance from the watering - place where their fhip - mates had a tent , without food , and ...
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... fituation it may easily be believed that they longed most ardently for the dawn , and as foon as it appeared they set out for the tent : they were obliged however to make their way along the fea - fhore , for the in- VOL . II . D ap ...
... fituation it may easily be believed that they longed most ardently for the dawn , and as foon as it appeared they set out for the tent : they were obliged however to make their way along the fea - fhore , for the in- VOL . II . D ap ...
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... fituation in which we now lay . About eight in the evening , the wind became more moderate , and though it was then too late to fetch off any water , we got out one of the boats , and fent three men on shore , right abreast of the ship ...
... fituation in which we now lay . About eight in the evening , the wind became more moderate , and though it was then too late to fetch off any water , we got out one of the boats , and fent three men on shore , right abreast of the ship ...
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