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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... tion , as no part of the woollen cloth , linen , beads , fciffars , knives , and other cutlery - ware , and toys , which were intended for the ufe of both fhips , and were fo neceffary to obtain re- freshments from Indians , had ...
... tion , as no part of the woollen cloth , linen , beads , fciffars , knives , and other cutlery - ware , and toys , which were intended for the ufe of both fhips , and were fo neceffary to obtain re- freshments from Indians , had ...
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... tion , but when we came to the northward of 48 ° , we found a current setting strongly to the north , fo that 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. ...
... tion , but when we came to the northward of 48 ° , we found a current setting strongly to the north , fo that 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. ...
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... tion , I found the island of Saint Ambrose there laid down in latitude 25 ° 30 ' S. , and 82 ° 20 ′ longitude weft of London , and fuppofing that islands of so small an extent , might be laid down with more exactnefs in this work than ...
... tion , I found the island of Saint Ambrose there laid down in latitude 25 ° 30 ' S. , and 82 ° 20 ′ longitude weft of London , and fuppofing that islands of so small an extent , might be laid down with more exactnefs in this work than ...
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... tion , where he had founded fome bays , he came to a grappling , and veered the boat to the beach , where he landed with four men , armed with mufquets and pistols : that the Indians at first were afraid of him , and retired , but that ...
... tion , where he had founded fome bays , he came to a grappling , and veered the boat to the beach , where he landed with four men , armed with mufquets and pistols : that the Indians at first were afraid of him , and retired , but that ...
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... tion of S. by E. E. and N. by W. W. All the while we lay to off this ifland , we heard an inceffant noise in the night , like the beating of a drum : and being becalmed juft as we got through the Streight , ten canoes put off from New ...
... tion of S. by E. E. and N. by W. W. All the while we lay to off this ifland , we heard an inceffant noise in the night , like the beating of a drum : and being becalmed juft as we got through the Streight , ten canoes put off from New ...
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