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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... thought strange that a very confiderable part of the globe on which we live should still have remain- ed unknown ; that it should still have been the subject of speculation , whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or ...
... thought strange that a very confiderable part of the globe on which we live should still have remain- ed unknown ; that it should still have been the subject of speculation , whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or ...
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... thought fit that it should " now be undertaken . " The Dolphin was a man of war of the fixth rate , mounting twenty - four guns : her complement was 150 men , with three Lieutenants , and thirty - feven petty officers . The Tamar was a ...
... thought fit that it should " now be undertaken . " The Dolphin was a man of war of the fixth rate , mounting twenty - four guns : her complement was 150 men , with three Lieutenants , and thirty - feven petty officers . The Tamar was a ...
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... 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 particular thought ne- ceffary to infert ...
... 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 particular thought ne- ceffary to infert ...
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... thought more worthy of credit ; among the Spa- niards , Magellan , Loaifa , Sarmiento , and Nodal ' ; among the English , Cavendish , Hawkins , and Knivet ; among the Dutch ,, Sebald ; de Noort , le Maire , and Spilberg ; and among the ...
... thought more worthy of credit ; among the Spa- niards , Magellan , Loaifa , Sarmiento , and Nodal ' ; among the English , Cavendish , Hawkins , and Knivet ; among the Dutch ,, Sebald ; de Noort , le Maire , and Spilberg ; and among the ...
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... thought strange , confidering how fhort the distance is from Port Saint Julian , which appears to be their ordinary habitation . Magellan , and his people faw them there very often , and trafficked with them fometimes on board his fhips ...
... thought strange , confidering how fhort the distance is from Port Saint Julian , which appears to be their ordinary habitation . Magellan , and his people faw them there very often , and trafficked with them fometimes on board his fhips ...
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