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 3W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... fire , probably more as a defence from the mufquitos than the cold . Under these hovels it is pro bable , that they thruft only their heads and the upper part of their bodies , extending their feet towards the fire . They were set up ...
... fire , probably more as a defence from the mufquitos than the cold . Under these hovels it is pro bable , that they thruft only their heads and the upper part of their bodies , extending their feet towards the fire . They were set up ...
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... fires were intended fome way for the taking the kanguroo , which we obferved to be fo much afraid of fire , that our dogs could fcarcely force it over places which had been newly burnt , though the fire was extinguished . They produce fire ...
... fires were intended fome way for the taking the kanguroo , which we obferved to be fo much afraid of fire , that our dogs could fcarcely force it over places which had been newly burnt , though the fire was extinguished . They produce fire ...
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... fire : it will fcarcely be difputed that the manner of pro- ducing it , whether by collifion or attrition , was discovered by chance : but its first effects would naturally strike those to whom it was a new object , with confternation ...
... fire : it will fcarcely be difputed that the manner of pro- ducing it , whether by collifion or attrition , was discovered by chance : but its first effects would naturally strike those to whom it was a new object , with confternation ...
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CONTENTS | 7 |
CHAP VIII | 31 |
A Defcription of the Inhabitants their Habitations Apparel Orna | 42 |
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