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: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 1W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... saw women that were gigantic , and others of the common ftature . Oliver de Noort reports , that he faw favages of a gigantic ftature at Port Defire , but does not call them giants that he took fix of them prisoners , and carried them ...
... saw women that were gigantic , and others of the common ftature . Oliver de Noort reports , that he faw favages of a gigantic ftature at Port Defire , but does not call them giants that he took fix of them prisoners , and carried them ...
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... larger than a pigeon , and fpotted Sunday 4. with black and white . On the 4th , we saw a great quantity of rock weed , and feveral feals : our la- November . titude was 38 ° 53 ' S. , titude ΤΟ COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
... larger than a pigeon , and fpotted Sunday 4. with black and white . On the 4th , we saw a great quantity of rock weed , and feveral feals : our la- November . titude was 38 ° 53 ' S. , titude ΤΟ COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
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... saw the sea approaching at some distance , in vaft billows covered with foam ; Tuesday 13 . I called to the people to hawl up the forefail , and let go the main fheet inftantly ; for I was perfuaded that if we had any fail out when the ...
... saw the sea approaching at some distance , in vaft billows covered with foam ; Tuesday 13 . I called to the people to hawl up the forefail , and let go the main fheet inftantly ; for I was perfuaded that if we had any fail out when the ...
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... saw land , which had the appearance of an island about eight or nine leagues long , there being no land in fight either to the northward or fouthward , though by the charts it should be Cape Saint Helena , which projects from the coaft ...
... saw land , which had the appearance of an island about eight or nine leagues long , there being no land in fight either to the northward or fouthward , though by the charts it should be Cape Saint Helena , which projects from the coaft ...
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... saw se- veral large columns of smoke rifing in many places , but no tree or bufh , the country refembling in ap . pearance the barren downs of England . We ob- ferved also that the water was frequently very fhal- low at the distance of ...
... saw se- veral large columns of smoke rifing in many places , but no tree or bufh , the country refembling in ap . pearance the barren downs of England . We ob- ferved also that the water was frequently very fhal- low at the distance of ...
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