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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... five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too minutely ; but it must be re- membered , that minutely to relate these events was the great object of the work . It was in ...
... five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too minutely ; but it must be re- membered , that minutely to relate these events was the great object of the work . It was in ...
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... five days above the bar , waiting for the land breeze to carry us out , for there is no getting out with the fea breeze , and the entrance between the two first forts is fo narrow , and so great a fea breaks in upon them , that it was ...
... five days above the bar , waiting for the land breeze to carry us out , for there is no getting out with the fea breeze , and the entrance between the two first forts is fo narrow , and so great a fea breaks in upon them , that it was ...
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... five miles from the fhore ; and in the Wednef . 21. morning , with a breeze from the land , we turned up the harbour's mouth ; we found it very narrow , with many rocks and shoals about it , and the most rapid tide I had ever known . I ...
... five miles from the fhore ; and in the Wednef . 21. morning , with a breeze from the land , we turned up the harbour's mouth ; we found it very narrow , with many rocks and shoals about it , and the most rapid tide I had ever known . I ...
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... five leagues up the Streight , upon the north fhore . At this place I came to an anchor in fifteen fathom water , but the Tamar was fo far to leeward , that fhe could not fetch the anchoring ground , and therefore kept under way all ...
... five leagues up the Streight , upon the north fhore . At this place I came to an anchor in fifteen fathom water , but the Tamar was fo far to leeward , that fhe could not fetch the anchoring ground , and therefore kept under way all ...
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... five hundred people , fome on foot , but the greater part on horseback : they drew up upon a flony fpit , which ran a good way into the fea , and upon which it was very bad landing , for the water was fhallow , and the ftones very large ...
... five hundred people , fome on foot , but the greater part on horseback : they drew up upon a flony fpit , which ran a good way into the fea , and upon which it was very bad landing , for the water was fhallow , and the ftones very large ...
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