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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... fmall skiff , and several other things which I knew by experience would be of the utmost importance , if it was intended that I should make another voyage round the world ; but I was told that the veffel and her equip- ment were very ...
... fmall skiff , and several other things which I knew by experience would be of the utmost importance , if it was intended that I should make another voyage round the world ; but I was told that the veffel and her equip- ment were very ...
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... fmall fails even to the top - gal- lant ftudding fails , notwithstanding the danger to which it expofed us ; but at day - break the next morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could ...
... fmall fails even to the top - gal- lant ftudding fails , notwithstanding the danger to which it expofed us ; but at day - break the next morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could ...
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... fmall houfe , which I took for a guard - house , and two pieces of cannon mounted upon their carriages , without any works about them . We now wore , and stood again for Cumberland Bay , but as foon as we opened it , the boat again put ...
... fmall houfe , which I took for a guard - house , and two pieces of cannon mounted upon their carriages , without any works about them . We now wore , and stood again for Cumberland Bay , but as foon as we opened it , the boat again put ...
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... fmall rocky iflands ; and I am inclined to be- hieve that if there was land at all it was to the northward , poffibly it might be Roggewein's eastern island , which he has placed in latitude 27 ° S. and which fome geographers have fup ...
... fmall rocky iflands ; and I am inclined to be- hieve that if there was land at all it was to the northward , poffibly it might be Roggewein's eastern island , which he has placed in latitude 27 ° S. and which fome geographers have fup ...
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... fmall , Saturd . 11 , low , flat island , which appeared to be almost level with the water's edge , and was covered with green trees as it was to the fouth , and directly to windward of us , we could not fetch it . It lies in latitude ...
... fmall , Saturd . 11 , low , flat island , which appeared to be almost level with the water's edge , and was covered with green trees as it was to the fouth , and directly to windward of us , we could not fetch it . It lies in latitude ...
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