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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... letter to Captain . Wallis , who fent me five hundred weight . This quantity however was fo inadequate to my wants , that I was foon afterwards reduced to the disagreeable neceffity of cutting off fome of my cables to fave my rigging ...
... letter to Captain . Wallis , who fent me five hundred weight . This quantity however was fo inadequate to my wants , that I was foon afterwards reduced to the disagreeable neceffity of cutting off fome of my cables to fave my rigging ...
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... letter to the Tuefday 9. Conful , entreating his affistance to recover them ; but , before I had finished it , he fent me word , that all of them having , to the great astonishment of the natives , been found naked on the beach , they ...
... letter to the Tuefday 9. Conful , entreating his affistance to recover them ; but , before I had finished it , he fent me word , that all of them having , to the great astonishment of the natives , been found naked on the beach , they ...
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... letter to Dr. Matty , which was published in the fixtieth volume of the Tranfactions of the Royal So- ciety , and which it is not neceffary here to repeat , as it is in general the fame as those which have been given by Commodore Byron ...
... letter to Dr. Matty , which was published in the fixtieth volume of the Tranfactions of the Royal So- ciety , and which it is not neceffary here to repeat , as it is in general the fame as those which have been given by Commodore Byron ...
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... letter to Captain Wallis , and requested him to confider what was beft for his Majefty's fervice , whether she should be difmiffed , or continue the voyage . Captain Wallis replied , that as the Lords of the Admi- ralty had ordered the ...
... letter to Captain Wallis , and requested him to confider what was beft for his Majefty's fervice , whether she should be difmiffed , or continue the voyage . Captain Wallis replied , that as the Lords of the Admi- ralty had ordered the ...
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... letter to the governor , in which I acquainted him with the reafon of my coming thither , and requested the liberty of the port to procure refreshments for my ship's company , who were in a dying con- dition , and shelter for the veffel ...
... letter to the governor , in which I acquainted him with the reafon of my coming thither , and requested the liberty of the port to procure refreshments for my ship's company , who were in a dying con- dition , and shelter for the veffel ...
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