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 2W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 - 676 Seiten |
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... stone , and two ftories high ; every house having , after the manner of the Portuguese , a little balcony before its windows , and a lattice of wood before the balcony . I computed its circuit to be about three miles ; for it appears to ...
... stone , and two ftories high ; every house having , after the manner of the Portuguese , a little balcony before its windows , and a lattice of wood before the balcony . I computed its circuit to be about three miles ; for it appears to ...
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... stones are alfo found here in fuch plenty , that a certain quantity only is allowed to be collected in a year ; to collect this quantity , a number of people are fent into the 7 country country where they are found , and when it is 84 ...
... stones are alfo found here in fuch plenty , that a certain quantity only is allowed to be collected in a year ; to collect this quantity , a number of people are fent into the 7 country country where they are found , and when it is 84 ...
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... stones for the King are flaves . The coin that is current here , is either that of Portugal , confifting chiefly of thirty - fix fhillings pieces ; or pieces , both of gold and filver , which are ftruck at this place : the pieces of ...
... stones for the King are flaves . The coin that is current here , is either that of Portugal , confifting chiefly of thirty - fix fhillings pieces ; or pieces , both of gold and filver , which are ftruck at this place : the pieces of ...
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... stone hatchet which lay in his house , had offered to purchase it of his wife for a nail : that he having refused to part with it upon any terms , he had catched it up , and throwing down the nail , threatened to cut her throat if she ...
... stone hatchet which lay in his house , had offered to purchase it of his wife for a nail : that he having refused to part with it upon any terms , he had catched it up , and throwing down the nail , threatened to cut her throat if she ...
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... stone , of very rude workmanship , and the first instance of carving in ftone that we had feen among these people . They appeared to fet a high value upon it , for it was covered from the weather by a fhed , that had been erected on ...
... stone , of very rude workmanship , and the first instance of carving in ftone that we had feen among these people . They appeared to fet a high value upon it , for it was covered from the weather by a fhed , that had been erected on ...
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