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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... morning . If it was not a mere natural event , but produced by an extraordinary interpofition , correcting a defect in the conftitution of nature , tending to mischief , it will lie upon those who maintain the pofition , to fhew , why ...
... morning . If it was not a mere natural event , but produced by an extraordinary interpofition , correcting a defect in the conftitution of nature , tending to mischief , it will lie upon those who maintain the pofition , to fhew , why ...
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... 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 them , but they all went down before our people could come ...
... 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 them , but they all went down before our people could come ...
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... morning , it being more moderate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and stood to the weftward . We were now in lati- tude tude 35 ° 50'S . and found the weather as COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE CHA P II Paffage from ...
... morning , it being more moderate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and stood to the weftward . We were now in lati- tude tude 35 ° 50'S . and found the weather as COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE CHA P II Paffage from ...
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... morning approached , the gale became more Wednef . 14 moderate , but we had ftill a great fea , and the wind shifting to S. by W. we ftood to the weftward under our courfes .. Soon after it was light , the fea appeared as red as blood ...
... morning approached , the gale became more Wednef . 14 moderate , but we had ftill a great fea , and the wind shifting to S. by W. we ftood to the weftward under our courfes .. Soon after it was light , the fea appeared as red as blood ...
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... morning , we . Sunday 190- founded and had forty fathom , with rocky ground ; having food off in the night , we now wore and flood in again , the ftorm still continuing with hail and fnow : and about fix o'clock we saw the land again ...
... morning , we . Sunday 190- founded and had forty fathom , with rocky ground ; having food off in the night , we now wore and flood in again , the ftorm still continuing with hail and fnow : and about fix o'clock we saw the land again ...
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