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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... ordered to fit her out with all poffible expedition . She was an old fhip , having been in the fervice thirty years , and was in my opinion by no means fit for a long voyage , having only a flight thin fheathing upon her bottom , which ...
... ordered to fit her out with all poffible expedition . She was an old fhip , having been in the fervice thirty years , and was in my opinion by no means fit for a long voyage , having only a flight thin fheathing upon her bottom , which ...
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... ordered to keep a - head of the Dolphin and the store . fhip , to pilot them through the fhoals ; but my ship worked fo ill , that we could but very feldom make her tack without the help of a boat to tow her round : however , with much ...
... ordered to keep a - head of the Dolphin and the store . fhip , to pilot them through the fhoals ; but my ship worked fo ill , that we could but very feldom make her tack without the help of a boat to tow her round : however , with much ...
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... ordered the Swallow on this service , with the nature of which I was well acquainted , he did not think himself at liberty to alter her destination , We continued therefore for fome time to navigate the Streight together , and as I had ...
... ordered the Swallow on this service , with the nature of which I was well acquainted , he did not think himself at liberty to alter her destination , We continued therefore for fome time to navigate the Streight together , and as I had ...
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... ordered every one of them a dram . 1767 . May . Friday 1 . By the next morning , the 2d of May , the Saturd . 2 . wind came again to the N. W. and N. N. W. but by this time we had got down the broken mizen gaff , repaired it as well as ...
... ordered every one of them a dram . 1767 . May . Friday 1 . By the next morning , the 2d of May , the Saturd . 2 . wind came again to the N. W. and N. N. W. but by this time we had got down the broken mizen gaff , repaired it as well as ...
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... ordered to be untwisted ; but as the yarns were found to be too thick for our purpose , it became neceffary to pick them into oakham : and when this was done , the moft difficult part of th work remained ; for this oakham could not be ...
... ordered to be untwisted ; but as the yarns were found to be too thick for our purpose , it became neceffary to pick them into oakham : and when this was done , the moft difficult part of th work remained ; for this oakham could not be ...
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