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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... 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 morning ...
... 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 morning ...
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... five o'clock , we could not fee , the land , notwithstanding its extreme height , though we were within less than half a mile of it , and at fix , the thickness of the weather having rendered the night so dark that we could not fee half ...
... five o'clock , we could not fee , the land , notwithstanding its extreme height , though we were within less than half a mile of it , and at fix , the thickness of the weather having rendered the night so dark that we could not fee half ...
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... five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we should be obliged to keep out in this dangerous pafs another night , but I then saw her founding a bay , and imme- diately stood in after her in a short time the mafter came on board , and ...
... five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we should be obliged to keep out in this dangerous pafs another night , but I then saw her founding a bay , and imme- diately stood in after her in a short time the mafter came on board , and ...
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... good harbour , with anchorage in between . twenty - five and thirty fathom , with a bottom of foft mud . We anchored without the islands , the the paffage on each fide of them being not more 14 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... good harbour , with anchorage in between . twenty - five and thirty fathom , with a bottom of foft mud . We anchored without the islands , the the paffage on each fide of them being not more 14 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... five , with great over - falls between them , and rocks in several places . Here we rode out a very hard gale , and the ground being ex- tremely uneven , we expected our cables to be cut in two every minute , yet when we weighed , to ...
... five , with great over - falls between them , and rocks in several places . Here we rode out a very hard gale , and the ground being ex- tremely uneven , we expected our cables to be cut in two every minute , yet when we weighed , to ...
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