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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... took a view of the coaft and the islands that lie off it , with their bearings , having an azimuth compass with me for that purpose ; but I obferved that the needle differed very confiderably in its position , even to thirty degrees ...
... took a view of the coaft and the islands that lie off it , with their bearings , having an azimuth compass with me for that purpose ; but I obferved that the needle differed very confiderably in its position , even to thirty degrees ...
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... took her out of harbour , knowing her condition , and did not think it worth while to wait till the leak could be otherwise stopped . To this man , therefore , the care of the expedient , which is called fothering the ship , was im ...
... took her out of harbour , knowing her condition , and did not think it worth while to wait till the leak could be otherwise stopped . To this man , therefore , the care of the expedient , which is called fothering the ship , was im ...
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... took fome pains to bring away fuch a fpecimen of it as might , in a certain degree , answer the pur- pofe , and I shall now give an account how it was procured . If we wanted to know the name of a stone , we took a ftone up into our ...
... took fome pains to bring away fuch a fpecimen of it as might , in a certain degree , answer the pur- pofe , and I shall now give an account how it was procured . If we wanted to know the name of a stone , we took a ftone up into our ...
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CONTENTS | 7 |
CHAP VIII | 31 |
A Defcription of the Inhabitants their Habitations Apparel Orna | 42 |
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