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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... weather beam , is on the weather fide of the ship . To BELAY , to faften a rope by winding it feveral times round a cleat , belaying - pin , or kevel . BENDING a fail , faftening it to its yard or ftay . BIGHT , the double part of a ...
... weather beam , is on the weather fide of the ship . To BELAY , to faften a rope by winding it feveral times round a cleat , belaying - pin , or kevel . BENDING a fail , faftening it to its yard or ftay . BIGHT , the double part of a ...
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... weather , & c . PORTS , the embrafures or openings in the fide of a fhip of war , wherein the artillery is ranged in battery upon the decks above and below . HALF - PORTS , are what ftops that part of the port which when the gun is ...
... weather , & c . PORTS , the embrafures or openings in the fide of a fhip of war , wherein the artillery is ranged in battery upon the decks above and below . HALF - PORTS , are what ftops that part of the port which when the gun is ...
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... WEATHER , is to fail to windward of fome fhip , bank , or head- land . To WEAR , the fame as to veer , to perform the operation by which a ship , in changing her courfe from one board to the other , turns her ftern to windward ; it is ...
... WEATHER , is to fail to windward of fome fhip , bank , or head- land . To WEAR , the fame as to veer , to perform the operation by which a ship , in changing her courfe from one board to the other , turns her ftern to windward ; it is ...
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... weather was fo hot , that the flesh ftunk in a few hours after they were killed . On Thursday the 2d of Auguft , we got again under fail , with a large cargo of fowls , lean goats , and monkies , which the people contrived to procure ...
... weather was fo hot , that the flesh ftunk in a few hours after they were killed . On Thursday the 2d of Auguft , we got again under fail , with a large cargo of fowls , lean goats , and monkies , which the people contrived to procure ...
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... 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 Rio de Janeiro to Port Defire; with fome Defcription of that Place.
... 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 Rio de Janeiro to Port Defire; with fome Defcription of that Place.
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