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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... morning , the Tuesday 9 . lieutenant acquainted me that , in the night , nine of my best men had fecretly fet off from the ship to swim on fhore , having stripped them- felves naked and left all their clothes behind them , taking only ...
... morning , the Tuesday 9 . lieutenant acquainted me that , in the night , nine of my best men had fecretly fet off from the ship to swim on fhore , having stripped them- felves naked and left all their clothes behind them , taking only ...
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... morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could perceive , however , that he had ftudding fails fet , and at nine o'clock , we had entirely loft fight of her ; we judged that he was ...
... morning , we could but juft fee the Dolphin's Saturd . 11 . top fails above the horizon , we could perceive , however , that he had ftudding fails fet , and at nine o'clock , we had entirely loft fight of her ; we judged that he was ...
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... morning , I fent the mafter again , out in Sunday 12 . the cutter , in fearch of an anchorage on the fouth fhore . I waited in a state of the most painful suspense for her return , till five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we ...
... morning , I fent the mafter again , out in Sunday 12 . the cutter , in fearch of an anchorage on the fouth fhore . I waited in a state of the most painful suspense for her return , till five o'clock in the afternoon , fearing that we ...
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... morning , after furmounting many dangers and difficulties , we once more got abreast of Cape Pillar , with a light breeze at S. E. and a great swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada , the wind fud- denly ...
... morning , after furmounting many dangers and difficulties , we once more got abreast of Cape Pillar , with a light breeze at S. E. and a great swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada , the wind fud- denly ...
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... morning , as we were lying to under the reefed main - fail and balanced mizen , a vaft fea broke over the quarter where the fhip's oars were lashed , and carried away fix of them , with the weather - cloth ; it also broke the mizen gaff ...
... morning , as we were lying to under the reefed main - fail and balanced mizen , a vaft fea broke over the quarter where the fhip's oars were lashed , and carried away fix of them , with the weather - cloth ; it also broke the mizen gaff ...
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