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:, Band 1W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... seven fathom , foon after deepening it again from feventeen to forty - two ; fo that we went over the end of a fhoal , which a little farther to the northward might have been fatal to us . Cape Blanco at this time bore W. S. W. S. ...
... seven fathom , foon after deepening it again from feventeen to forty - two ; fo that we went over the end of a fhoal , which a little farther to the northward might have been fatal to us . Cape Blanco at this time bore W. S. W. S. ...
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... seven or eight miles from the fhore , for we had many times not more than ten fathom . We continued to stand along the fhore all day as near as poffible , and in the evening we faw an ifland at the distance Tuesday 20. of about fix ...
... seven or eight miles from the fhore , for we had many times not more than ten fathom . We continued to stand along the fhore all day as near as poffible , and in the evening we faw an ifland at the distance Tuesday 20. of about fix ...
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... seven feet of the after part of her that touched the ground , there was reafon to hope that fhe had suffered no damage ; however , I determined to unhang the rudder , that it might be examined . During all this night and the next ...
... seven feet of the after part of her that touched the ground , there was reafon to hope that fhe had suffered no damage ; however , I determined to unhang the rudder , that it might be examined . During all this night and the next ...
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... seven miles up the country : I saw several hares as large as a fawn ; I fhot one of them which weighed more than fix and twenty pounds , and if I had had a good greyhound , I dare fay the fhip's company might have lived upon hare two ...
... seven miles up the country : I saw several hares as large as a fawn ; I fhot one of them which weighed more than fix and twenty pounds , and if I had had a good greyhound , I dare fay the fhip's company might have lived upon hare two ...
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... seven fathom ; the Streight here is not more than four leagues wide . The next day at noon , having had little wind , and calms , Thursday 27 . we anchored at Port Famine , close to the shore , and found our fituation very fafe and ...
... seven fathom ; the Streight here is not more than four leagues wide . The next day at noon , having had little wind , and calms , Thursday 27 . we anchored at Port Famine , close to the shore , and found our fituation very fafe and ...
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