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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... those who read merely for enter- tainment will be compenfated by the defcription of coun- tries which no European had before vifited , and manners which in many inftances exhibit a new picture of human life . In this part , the relation ...
... those who read merely for enter- tainment will be compenfated by the defcription of coun- tries which no European had before vifited , and manners which in many inftances exhibit a new picture of human life . In this part , the relation ...
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... Those who wish to know all the particulars of these American traditions may fatisfy their curiosity by reading Tor- quemado , lib . 1. chap . 13 and 14. where they will find that these fables are very fimilar to those relative to the ...
... Those who wish to know all the particulars of these American traditions may fatisfy their curiosity by reading Tor- quemado , lib . 1. chap . 13 and 14. where they will find that these fables are very fimilar to those relative to the ...
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... those who went in the expedition from Marseilles , and Saint Maloes . Those who bear teftimony to the con-- trary , are Winter , the Dutch Admiral Hermite , Froger in de Gennes's narrative , and Sir John Narborough . Winter , after ...
... those who went in the expedition from Marseilles , and Saint Maloes . Those who bear teftimony to the con-- trary , are Winter , the Dutch Admiral Hermite , Froger in de Gennes's narrative , and Sir John Narborough . Winter , after ...
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... those who hold the affirmative in this question , speak of people that inhabited the desert coast of Patagonia to the eaft and weft ; and that , on the contrary , thofe who hold the negative , speak of those who inhabit the Streight ...
... those who hold the affirmative in this question , speak of people that inhabited the desert coast of Patagonia to the eaft and weft ; and that , on the contrary , thofe who hold the negative , speak of those who inhabit the Streight ...
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... Those who diligently confider these different relations will find reason to believe , that all the parties have spoken truth , each of them faithfully reporting what he faw , and there- fore that the existence of a gigantic race in ...
... Those who diligently confider these different relations will find reason to believe , that all the parties have spoken truth , each of them faithfully reporting what he faw , and there- fore that the existence of a gigantic race in ...
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