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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... leagues long , there being , no land in fight either to the northward or fouthward ,. though by the charts it should be Cape Saint Helena , which projects from the coaft to a confiderable distance , and forms . two bays , one to the ...
... leagues long , there being , no land in fight either to the northward or fouthward ,. though by the charts it should be Cape Saint Helena , which projects from the coaft to a confiderable distance , and forms . two bays , one to the ...
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... leagues ; in the morning we flood in for it , and found that it correfponded with Narborough's defcription of Penguin island . As Port Defire is faid to lie about three leagues north weft of this ifland , I fent the boat to look for it ...
... leagues ; in the morning we flood in for it , and found that it correfponded with Narborough's defcription of Penguin island . As Port Defire is faid to lie about three leagues north weft of this ifland , I fent the boat to look for it ...
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... leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. distant thirty- four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. 4 We continued our courfe the next day with a pleasant gale Thursday 6 . and fine weather , fo that we ...
... leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. distant thirty- four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. 4 We continued our courfe the next day with a pleasant gale Thursday 6 . and fine weather , fo that we ...
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... leagues . We fteered S. E. by the com- pafs , and at night brought to , being by my account in lati- tude 47 ° 18 ′ S. The next morning it blew very hard at N. W. by N. and I ftill thought the island might lie to the eastward ; I ...
... leagues . We fteered S. E. by the com- pafs , and at night brought to , being by my account in lati- tude 47 ° 18 ′ S. The next morning it blew very hard at N. W. by N. and I ftill thought the island might lie to the eastward ; I ...
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... league in the evening I worked up close to this fpit of fand , having feen many guanicoes feeding in the vallies as we went along , and a great fmoke all the afternoon , about four or five leagues up the Streight , upon the north fhore ...
... league in the evening I worked up close to this fpit of fand , having feen many guanicoes feeding in the vallies as we went along , and a great fmoke all the afternoon , about four or five leagues up the Streight , upon the north fhore ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo anchor appearance Auguft Batavia beach beſt boat bore cable canoes Cape Pillar charts cloſe coaft cocoa-nut confiderable courfe courſe Defire diftant diſcovered diſtance eaſt faid fail faluted fame fathom feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhip's fhoal fide figns firft firſt fiſh fituation fix o'clock fmall fome foon four fouth fouthward freſh Friday fteered ftill ftood ftrong fuch fuppofed furf gale ground harbour hauled himſelf Indians iſland land latitude leſs longitude miles Monday morning moſt muſt myſelf night noon north fhore notwithſtanding obferved paffage paffed poffible Port Port Egmont Port Famine purpoſe reafon reef refreſhments rocks Saturday ſaw ſea ſeen ſeven ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall ſome ſtood Streight Sunday Tamar thefe themſelves theſe theſe iſlands thoſe three leagues Thurſday Tinian Tueſday uſed veffel voyage weather Wednef weft weftward wind wood