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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... hill , with Spanish colours flying on the top of it . This fort , which is faced with stone , has eighteen or twenty ... hills , which feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided by enclosures from each other ; we faw alfo two ...
... hill , with Spanish colours flying on the top of it . This fort , which is faced with stone , has eighteen or twenty ... hills , which feemed to be cultivated , as many spots were divided by enclosures from each other ; we faw alfo two ...
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... 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 returned with a few cafks of water , which they had ...
... 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 returned with a few cafks of water , which they had ...
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... hills , and foon after it began to thunder and lighten at a dreadful rate : as these appear- ances were very threatening , I ftood in again towards the island in hopes of meeting with the boat ; but though we ran in as close as we durft ...
... hills , and foon after it began to thunder and lighten at a dreadful rate : as these appear- ances were very threatening , I ftood in again towards the island in hopes of meeting with the boat ; but though we ran in as close as we durft ...
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... , both being nearly in the fame latitude , and by the globe , it is diftant about thirty - one leagues . It is very high and mountainous , and at a distance appears 1-67 . May . 1-67 . May . like one hill or rock : like ROUND THE WORLD .
... , both being nearly in the fame latitude , and by the globe , it is diftant about thirty - one leagues . It is very high and mountainous , and at a distance appears 1-67 . May . 1-67 . May . like one hill or rock : like ROUND THE WORLD .
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... hill or rock : it is of a triangular form , and about seven or eight leagues in circumference . The fouth part , which we faw when we first made the island , at the diftance of three and twenty leagues , is much the higheft : on the ...
... hill or rock : it is of a triangular form , and about seven or eight leagues in circumference . The fouth part , which we faw when we first made the island , at the diftance of three and twenty leagues , is much the higheft : on the ...
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