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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... kind . There are many birds here , and among others fome very large hawks . Of the pintado birds , our people , as I have before obferved , caught no less than seven hundred in one night . We had not much opportunity to examine the ...
... kind . There are many birds here , and among others fome very large hawks . Of the pintado birds , our people , as I have before obferved , caught no less than seven hundred in one night . We had not much opportunity to examine the ...
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... kind of intercourse with them , and by their means with the rest of the inhabi- tants ; these men , however , before the boat could reach the fhore , quitted their station , and proceeded along the beach . As the trees would foon ...
... kind of intercourse with them , and by their means with the rest of the inhabi- tants ; these men , however , before the boat could reach the fhore , quitted their station , and proceeded along the beach . As the trees would foon ...
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... kind of common - hall , or council - house , and was neatly built and thatched . This was the building in which our people had been received who were on fhore here with the master , and they told me that both the fides and floor were ...
... kind of common - hall , or council - house , and was neatly built and thatched . This was the building in which our people had been received who were on fhore here with the master , and they told me that both the fides and floor were ...
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... kind of circular dance . After a little time they launched several canoes , and made towards us ; upon which we lay to , that they might have time to come up , and we conceived great hopes that we should prevail upon them to come on ...
... kind of circular dance . After a little time they launched several canoes , and made towards us ; upon which we lay to , that they might have time to come up , and we conceived great hopes that we should prevail upon them to come on ...
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... kind of people that we had seen at Isle Egmont , in exchange for nails , and fuch trifles as we had ; they promised , by figns , to bring us more the next day , and we kept off and on all night : the G 2 night 1767 Auguft . Friday 21 ...
... kind of people that we had seen at Isle Egmont , in exchange for nails , and fuch trifles as we had ; they promised , by figns , to bring us more the next day , and we kept off and on all night : the G 2 night 1767 Auguft . Friday 21 ...
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