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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... continued in their hiding places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reflored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo fhowed him du Perou , liv , 9. chap . 9 ...
... continued in their hiding places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reflored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo fhowed him du Perou , liv , 9. chap . 9 ...
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John Hawkesworth. delivered , and in whose poffeffion it continued till they thought fit to return it . Mr. Dalrymple fays , " that he did not expect to find him- " self mentioned by name in the work I have just published ; " but ...
John Hawkesworth. delivered , and in whose poffeffion it continued till they thought fit to return it . Mr. Dalrymple fays , " that he did not expect to find him- " self mentioned by name in the work I have just published ; " but ...
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... continued ftream , as long as it was necef- fary . In the morning of the 27th , we made the ifland of Sal , one of the Cape de Verds , and feeing feveral turtle upon the water , we hoifted out our jolly boat , and attempted to strike ...
... continued ftream , as long as it was necef- fary . In the morning of the 27th , we made the ifland of Sal , one of the Cape de Verds , and feeing feveral turtle upon the water , we hoifted out our jolly boat , and attempted to strike ...
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... continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fish would come near enough to our copper bottom . for us to ftrike , though we saw the fea as it were quickened with them at a little distance . Ships in these hot latitudes ...
... continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fish would come near enough to our copper bottom . for us to ftrike , though we saw the fea as it were quickened with them at a little distance . Ships in these hot latitudes ...
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... continued our courfe till Monday the 29th , having frequently hard gales with fudden gufts , which obliged us to strike our top - gallant - mafts , and get up our flumps ; but this day it blew a ftorm , with a terrible sea , and the ...
... continued our courfe till Monday the 29th , having frequently hard gales with fudden gufts , which obliged us to strike our top - gallant - mafts , and get up our flumps ; but this day it blew a ftorm , with a terrible sea , and the ...
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