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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... rocks in several places . Here we rode out a very hard gale , and the ground being ex- tremely uneven , we expected our cables to be cut in two every minute , yet when we weighed , to our great surprise , they did not appear to have ...
... rocks in several places . Here we rode out a very hard gale , and the ground being ex- tremely uneven , we expected our cables to be cut in two every minute , yet when we weighed , to our great surprise , they did not appear to have ...
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... rock , fo that there was the greatest reafon to apprehend fhe would founder . With all her defects the was indeed a good fea boat , and if fhe had not , it would have been impoffible for her to have out- outlived this storm , in which ...
... rock , fo that there was the greatest reafon to apprehend fhe would founder . With all her defects the was indeed a good fea boat , and if fhe had not , it would have been impoffible for her to have out- outlived this storm , in which ...
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... rocks by the furf , and as it was , they were every moment in danger of being devoured by a fhark . About ten o'clock in the morning , however , they reached the tents , almoft perifhed with hunger and cold , and were received with ...
... rocks by the furf , and as it was , they were every moment in danger of being devoured by a fhark . About ten o'clock in the morning , however , they reached the tents , almoft perifhed with hunger and cold , and were received with ...
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... being nearly in the fame latitude , and by the globe , it is diftant about thirty - one leagues . It is very high and mountainous , and at a distance appears 1-67 . May . 1-67 . May . like one hill or rock : like ROUND THE WORLD . 41.
... being nearly in the fame latitude , and by the globe , it is diftant about thirty - one leagues . It is very high and mountainous , and at a distance appears 1-67 . May . 1-67 . May . like one hill or rock : like ROUND THE WORLD . 41.
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... rocks , or fhoal running off the eastern point , but there is a reef of rocks and fand running off the western fide , near the fouth end of it . He is alfo mistaken as to the distance of this island from Juan Fer- nandes , and its ...
... rocks , or fhoal running off the eastern point , but there is a reef of rocks and fand running off the western fide , near the fouth end of it . He is alfo mistaken as to the distance of this island from Juan Fer- nandes , and its ...
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