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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... swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada , the wind fud- denly shifted to S. and S. by W. and blew fo hard that it was with great difficulty we could carry 6 hard 16 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada , the wind fud- denly shifted to S. and S. by W. and blew fo hard that it was with great difficulty we could carry 6 hard 16 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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... just upon the rifing of the hill , with Spanish colours flying on the top of it . This fort , which is faced with stone , has eighteen or twenty ern- brafures , and within it a long house , which I supposed to be barracks for the ...
... just upon the rifing of the hill , with Spanish colours flying on the top of it . This fort , which is faced with stone , has eighteen or twenty ern- brafures , and within it a long house , which I supposed to be barracks for the ...
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... just at fun - fet , we anchored on the eaft fide of the ifland , in the fame place where Commodore Byron had anchored about two years before . We loft no time , but immediately got off fifteen casks of water , and fent a number of men ...
... just at fun - fet , we anchored on the eaft fide of the ifland , in the fame place where Commodore Byron had anchored about two years before . We loft no time , but immediately got off fifteen casks of water , and fent a number of men ...
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... just mentioned , in the direction of W. by S. to the distance of about three quarters of a mile , where the fea continually breaks upon it . To anchor , run in till the hole in the rock is fhut in , about a cable's length upon this low ...
... just mentioned , in the direction of W. by S. to the distance of about three quarters of a mile , where the fea continually breaks upon it . To anchor , run in till the hole in the rock is fhut in , about a cable's length upon this low ...
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... just big enough to receive three fhips , which we called BYRON'S HARBOUR . When we were a - breaft of the entrance of it , it bore from us S. by E. E. and the Volcano Inland bore N. W. W. Our boat entered it , and found two runs of ...
... just big enough to receive three fhips , which we called BYRON'S HARBOUR . When we were a - breaft of the entrance of it , it bore from us S. by E. E. and the Volcano Inland bore N. W. W. Our boat entered it , and found two runs of ...
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