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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... weather the land on either tack . It was now almoft dark , the gale increased , driving before it a hollow fwell , and a fog came on , with violent rain ; we therefore got clofe under the fouth fhore , and sent our boat a - head to find ...
... weather the land on either tack . It was now almoft dark , the gale increased , driving before it a hollow fwell , and a fog came on , with violent rain ; we therefore got clofe under the fouth fhore , and sent our boat a - head to find ...
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... weather , and little or no current in any direc- 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 ...
... weather , and little or no current in any direc- 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 ...
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... weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now run back again into the Streight , without falling down among the broken land , and incurring the dangers of the northern ...
... weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now run back again into the Streight , without falling down among the broken land , and incurring the dangers of the northern ...
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... weather - cloth ; it also broke the mizen gaff close where the fail was reefed , and the iron ftrap of one of the main dead eyes , laying the whole veffel for fome time under water ; we were however fortunate enough to haul up the main ...
... weather - cloth ; it also broke the mizen gaff close where the fail was reefed , and the iron ftrap of one of the main dead eyes , laying the whole veffel for fome time under water ; we were however fortunate enough to haul up the main ...
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... weather being more moderate , though the wind was still con- trary , we repaired our rigging , and the carpen- ters fixed a new dead eye where the old one had been C 4 1767 . May . Tuesday 5 . been broken ; ROUND THE WORLD . 23.
... weather being more moderate , though the wind was still con- trary , we repaired our rigging , and the carpen- ters fixed a new dead eye where the old one had been C 4 1767 . May . Tuesday 5 . been broken ; ROUND THE WORLD . 23.
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