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 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 31
Seite 9
... paffed it before , I was ordered to keep a - head and lead the way , with liberty to anchor and weigh when I thought proper ; but perceiving that the bad failing of the Swallow would fo much retard the Dolphin as probably to make her ...
... paffed it before , I was ordered to keep a - head and lead the way , with liberty to anchor and weigh when I thought proper ; but perceiving that the bad failing of the Swallow would fo much retard the Dolphin as probably to make her ...
Seite 31
... on , which in a moment laid the ship down in a furprifing manner , and broke the mizen gaff juft where the fail was reefed ; fo that if J another 1767 . May . another minute had paffed before the ROUND THE WORLD . 31.
... on , which in a moment laid the ship down in a furprifing manner , and broke the mizen gaff juft where the fail was reefed ; fo that if J another 1767 . May . another minute had paffed before the ROUND THE WORLD . 31.
Seite 32
... paffed before the boat had been got in , we muft inevitably have lost her , Sunday 17. and every foul on board would have perished . This wind and weather continued till midnight , when it became fomewhat more moderate , fo that we were ...
... paffed before the boat had been got in , we muft inevitably have lost her , Sunday 17. and every foul on board would have perished . This wind and weather continued till midnight , when it became fomewhat more moderate , fo that we were ...
Seite 35
... paffed another toilfome and dangerous night . In the morning , having a stiff gale at N. W. we Wednes.20 . made towards our anchoring - ground with all the fail we could spread , and happily regained it about four o'clock in the ...
... paffed another toilfome and dangerous night . In the morning , having a stiff gale at N. W. we Wednes.20 . made towards our anchoring - ground with all the fail we could spread , and happily regained it about four o'clock in the ...
Seite 40
... paffed the night in a state of inexpreffible anxiety and distress , they looked out for the fhip with the first dawn of the morning , and seeing nothing of her , con- cluded that she had perifhed in the ftorm , which they had never feen ...
... paffed the night in a state of inexpreffible anxiety and distress , they looked out for the fhip with the first dawn of the morning , and seeing nothing of her , con- cluded that she had perifhed in the ftorm , which they had never feen ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty ... John Byron,Cook,John Hawkesworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt alfo almoſt alſo anchor anſwer appeared Auguft Batavia beach beſt boat called canoes Cape Cape Byron Cape Horn Cape Pillar cloſe coaft cocoa-nuts confiderable defired diſcovered diſtance eaft eaſt Engliſh faid fail fame fathom feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhip's fhoals fhore fide figns firſt fituation fmall fome foon fouth fouthward freſh Friday ftill fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed gave harbour himſelf houſe impoffible Indians inhabitants iſland juft land latitude leagues leaſt lefs longitude Macaffar miles Mindanao moft Monday morning moſt myſelf natives neceffary night northward o'clock obferved occafion paffage paffed perfon poffible purpoſe reafon reef refreſhments round Saturd ſaw ſeemed ſeen ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall Solander ſome ſtand ſtill Streight ſtrong Sunday thefe themſelves theſe theſe iſlands thoſe Thurfd trees Tueſday uſed veffel vifit voyage weather Wednef weft weftward weſt wind wood