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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... hour , and at last had the fatis- faction to take her on board , though he had made no discovery either of Tuesday's Bay , or any other anchoring - place . We made fail the reft of the night , endeavouring to keep near the south shore ...
... hour , and at last had the fatis- faction to take her on board , though he had made no discovery either of Tuesday's Bay , or any other anchoring - place . We made fail the reft of the night , endeavouring to keep near the south shore ...
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... hours , but before morn- ing it veered again to the N. W. and continued in that quarter till the afternoon of the 29th , Wednel , 29 , when it died away , and we had a dead calm for fix hours . During this time we had a high fea , which ...
... hours , but before morn- ing it veered again to the N. W. and continued in that quarter till the afternoon of the 29th , Wednel , 29 , when it died away , and we had a dead calm for fix hours . During this time we had a high fea , which ...
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... hour blew , if poffible , stronger than ever . This wind made the fhip come up with her head right against the vaft fea which the north - weft wind had raised , and at every pitch which the made against it , the end of the bowsprit was ...
... hour blew , if poffible , stronger than ever . This wind made the fhip come up with her head right against the vaft fea which the north - weft wind had raised , and at every pitch which the made against it , the end of the bowsprit was ...
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... hour , the weather began to grow gloomy , and the wind Sunday 17 . to freshen , a heavy black cloud at the fame time fettled over the island so as to hide the tops of the hills , and foon after it began to thunder and lighten at a ...
... hour , the weather began to grow gloomy , and the wind Sunday 17 . to freshen , a heavy black cloud at the fame time fettled over the island so as to hide the tops of the hills , and foon after it began to thunder and lighten at a ...
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... and lightning , fleet and rain . The fun was above the horizon about ten hours in the four and twenty , but we frequently paffed many days together 1767 . June . together without feeing him ; and 50 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... and lightning , fleet and rain . The fun was above the horizon about ten hours in the four and twenty , but we frequently paffed many days together 1767 . June . together without feeing him ; and 50 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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