Cook's voyages of discovery, ed. by J. BarrowA and C Black, 1904 - 417 Seiten |
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... situations of the old , and made several new discoveries . But the third voyage which he made is distinguished above ... situation and productions , bid fairer for becoming an object of consequence , in the system of European navigation ...
... situations of the old , and made several new discoveries . But the third voyage which he made is distinguished above ... situation and productions , bid fairer for becoming an object of consequence , in the system of European navigation ...
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... situation , with uniform and invariable success , must have required not only a thorough and accurate knowledge of his business , but a powerful and comprehensive genius , fruitful in resources , and equally ready in the application of ...
... situation , with uniform and invariable success , must have required not only a thorough and accurate knowledge of his business , but a powerful and comprehensive genius , fruitful in resources , and equally ready in the application of ...
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... situation is certainly whole- some ; while we stayed here the thermometer never rose higher than 83 degrees . We had frequent rains , and once a very hard gale of wind . So that , upon the whole , Rio de Janeiro is a very good place for ...
... situation is certainly whole- some ; while we stayed here the thermometer never rose higher than 83 degrees . We had frequent rains , and once a very hard gale of wind . So that , upon the whole , Rio de Janeiro is a very good place for ...
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... situation till six o'clock in the morning , they conceived some hope of deliverance by discovering the place of the sun through the clouds , which were become thinner , and began to break away . Their first care was to see whether the ...
... situation till six o'clock in the morning , they conceived some hope of deliverance by discovering the place of the sun through the clouds , which were become thinner , and began to break away . Their first care was to see whether the ...
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... situation in comparison with ours , and make the scales by which good and evil are distributed to man hang even between us . On the 26th January we took our departure from Cape Horn , and by the first of March we were in latitude 38 ...
... situation in comparison with ours , and make the scales by which good and evil are distributed to man hang even between us . On the 26th January we took our departure from Cape Horn , and by the first of March we were in latitude 38 ...
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acquainted Admiralty afterwards anchor appeared arms arrival ashore Banks Batavia beach boat body bread-fruit brought called canoes Cape CAPE KIDNAPPERS Captain Clerke Captain Cook Charles Clerke chief cloth coast cocoa-nuts colour continued Cook's danger discovered Discovery distance Easter Island Endeavour farther fathom feet fire fish four gave guns hand harbour hogs hope houses Hugh Palliser immediately Indians inhabitants island isle kind king land latitude leagues leave lieutenant marines miles morning musket natives navigation night northward o'clock observed occasion officers ordered Otaheite Pacific Ocean party pieces pinnace plantains present received Resolution Richard Pickersgill rocks round sail scurvy seemed seen sent ship shore shot side situation Society Islands Solander soon stones stood Straits of Sunda Terreeoboo thought told took transit of Venus trees Tupia voyage wind wood Zealand
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Seite 83 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet...
Seite 235 - Ninety-seven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another till they were lost in the clouds.
Seite 120 - Three of the pumps, however, were kept going, and at nine o'clock the ship righted ; but the leak had gained upon us so considerably, that it was imagined she must go to the bottom as soon as she ceased to be supported by the rock HORRORS OP SHIPWRECK.
Seite 278 - ... use these people saw made of our fire-arms, my friend begged to have it} and when he landed, told his countrymen in what manner it was killed. The day being far spent, and the tide not permitting us to stay longer in the creek, we took leave of the people, and got on board a little after sunset. From this little excursion, I found that we were to expect nothing from these people but the privilege of visiting their country undisturbed. For it was easy to see they had little else than good-nature...
Seite 290 - I had also frequently a fire made in an iron pot at the bottom of the well, which was of great use in purifying the air in the lower parts of the ship.
Seite 372 - We found in it both the hands of Captain Cook entire, which were well known from a remarkable scar on one of them, that divided the thumb from the fore-finger, the whole length of the metacarpal bone ; the skull, but with the scalp separated from it, and the bones that form the face wanting...
Seite 306 - But the most extraordinary of all the articles which they brought to the ships for sale, were human skulls, and hands not yet quite stripped of the flesh, which they made our people plainly understand they had eaten; and, indeed, some of them had evident marks that they had been upon the fire.
Seite 155 - ... up with a force much greater than we could have thought them able to conquer by any combination of their strength. But though we gratified our curiosity at their expense, the injury did not go unrevenged ; for thousands immediately threw themselves upon us, and gave us intolerable pain with their stings, especially those which took possession of our necks and hair, from whence they were not easily driven.
Seite 358 - One of the natives, having in his hands a stone, and a long iron spike (which they call a pahooa), came up to the Captain, flourishing his weapon, by way of defiance, and threatening to throw the stone. The Captain desired him to desist; but the man persisting in his insolence, he was at length provoked to fire a load of small shot.
Seite 392 - Erees, through all the other islands, is found also here. Those whom we saw were, without exception, perfectly well formed ; whereas the lower sort, besides their general inferiority, are subject to all the variety of make and figure that is seen in the populace of other countries.