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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... will always be retained with the warmest gratitude , by BROMLEY , KENT , ift May 1773 . YOUR MAJESTY'S Most faithful , and moft obliged Subject and Servant , JOHN HAWKESWORT H. OF THE FIRST VOL U M E. GENERAL INTRODUCTION . DEDICATION .
... will always be retained with the warmest gratitude , by BROMLEY , KENT , ift May 1773 . YOUR MAJESTY'S Most faithful , and moft obliged Subject and Servant , JOHN HAWKESWORT H. OF THE FIRST VOL U M E. GENERAL INTRODUCTION . DEDICATION .
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... obliged to make many additions to it , after I had prepared my manuscript . It is however hoped , that those who read merely for enter- tainment will be compenfated by the defcription of coun- tries which no European had before vifited ...
... obliged to make many additions to it , after I had prepared my manuscript . It is however hoped , that those who read merely for enter- tainment will be compenfated by the defcription of coun- tries which no European had before vifited ...
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... obliged to live upon fish : that they feized the women of the country , to whom their bru- tality was fatal , and afterwards giving themselves up to worse vices , the whole race was deftroyed by fire from heaven , which however left ...
... obliged to live upon fish : that they feized the women of the country , to whom their bru- tality was fatal , and afterwards giving themselves up to worse vices , the whole race was deftroyed by fire from heaven , which however left ...
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... obliged to make an easy fail till she had got up another , and the wind feemed to be coming again to the fouthward , we loft a good deal of way . We continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fish would come near enough ...
... obliged to make an easy fail till she had got up another , and the wind feemed to be coming again to the fouthward , we loft a good deal of way . We continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fish would come near enough ...
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... 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 ship laboured fo much , that , to eafe her , I ordered the two fore- most , and two aftermoft guns to ...
... 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 ship laboured fo much , that , to eafe her , I ordered the two fore- most , and two aftermoft guns to ...
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