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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... Wind to carry her to Batavia , with fome Account of the Place , the Town of Macaffar , and the adiacent Country . CHAP . XII . 157 Paffage from Bonthain Bay , in the Island of Celebes , to Batavia . Transactions there , and the Voyage ...
... Wind to carry her to Batavia , with fome Account of the Place , the Town of Macaffar , and the adiacent Country . CHAP . XII . 157 Paffage from Bonthain Bay , in the Island of Celebes , to Batavia . Transactions there , and the Voyage ...
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... wind : foon after it freshened to the W. S. W. blowing right in from the fea , and after making two boards , we had the mortification to find that we could not weather the land on either tack . It was now almoft dark , the gale ...
... wind : foon after it freshened to the W. S. W. blowing right in from the fea , and after making two boards , we had the mortification to find that we could not weather the land on either tack . It was now almoft dark , the gale ...
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... winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the northward of ... wind fud- denly shifted to S. and S. by W. and blew fo hard that it was with great difficulty we could carry 6 hard ...
... winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the northward of ... wind fud- denly shifted to S. and S. by W. and blew fo hard that it was with great difficulty we could carry 6 hard ...
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... wind , and its exceffive violence , produced a fea fo dreadfully hollow , that great quantities of water were thrown in upon our deck , fo that we were in the utmost danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to fhorten fail , it being ...
... wind , and its exceffive violence , produced a fea fo dreadfully hollow , that great quantities of water were thrown in upon our deck , fo that we were in the utmost danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to fhorten fail , it being ...
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... almost immediately afterwards , the wind came again to the S. W. , and if it had continued in that quarter , our destruction would have been inevitable . CHAP . CHA P. II . The Paffage from Cape Pillar , 18 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
... almost immediately afterwards , the wind came again to the S. W. , and if it had continued in that quarter , our destruction would have been inevitable . CHAP . CHA P. II . The Paffage from Cape Pillar , 18 CAPTAIN CARTERET's VOYAGE.
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