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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... probably to make her lose the season for getting into high southern latitudes , and defeat the intention of the voyage , I proposed to Captain Wallis , that he should lay the Swallow up in fome cove or bay , and that I fhould attend and ...
... probably to make her lose the season for getting into high southern latitudes , and defeat the intention of the voyage , I proposed to Captain Wallis , that he should lay the Swallow up in fome cove or bay , and that I fhould attend and ...
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... probably we then opened the great bay , which is faid to be ninety leagues deep . We found here a vaft fwell from the N. W. and the winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the ...
... probably we then opened the great bay , which is faid to be ninety leagues deep . We found here a vaft fwell from the N. W. and the winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the ...
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... probably before us ; I therefore hauled to the northward , intending to make the island of Juan Fernandes , or Mafa- fuero , that we might increase our stock before we failed to the westward . In the middle of the night of the 16th , we ...
... probably before us ; I therefore hauled to the northward , intending to make the island of Juan Fernandes , or Mafa- fuero , that we might increase our stock before we failed to the westward . In the middle of the night of the 16th , we ...
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... probably the people on board had provided for their own fafety , by returning on board the fhip : to reach the tent of their fhip mates , during the darkness and tempeft , was equally beyond their power , and they were reduced to the ...
... probably the people on board had provided for their own fafety , by returning on board the fhip : to reach the tent of their fhip mates , during the darkness and tempeft , was equally beyond their power , and they were reduced to the ...
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... probably the land seen by Quiros , as the fituation is nearly the fame ; but if not , the land he faw could not be more confiderable : whatever it was , we went to the fouthward of it , and the long bil- lows we had here , convinced us ...
... probably the land seen by Quiros , as the fituation is nearly the fame ; but if not , the land he faw could not be more confiderable : whatever it was , we went to the fouthward of it , and the long bil- lows we had here , convinced us ...
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