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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... under- taken what has fo long been neglected ; and under Your Majefty's aufpices , in little more than seven years , discoveries have been made far greater than those of of all the navigators in the world col- lectively from DEDICATION .
... under- taken what has fo long been neglected ; and under Your Majefty's aufpices , in little more than seven years , discoveries have been made far greater than those of of all the navigators in the world col- lectively from DEDICATION .
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... seven of these giants in Possession Bay , at another time fix , and at a third time they had an interview with a company of more than four hun- dred men , part of whom were gigantic , and part of the common ftature . That Harrington and ...
... seven of these giants in Possession Bay , at another time fix , and at a third time they had an interview with a company of more than four hun- dred men , part of whom were gigantic , and part of the common ftature . That Harrington and ...
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... seven and twenty years , I had never seen such a deception before ; others how- ever have been equally deceived ; for the mafter of a fhip , not long fince , made oath , that he had feen an island between the weft end of Ireland and New ...
... seven and twenty years , I had never seen such a deception before ; others how- ever have been equally deceived ; for the mafter of a fhip , not long fince , made oath , that he had feen an island between the weft end of Ireland and New ...
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... seven fathom , foon after deep- ening it again from feventeen to forty - two ; fo that we went over the end of a fhoal , which a little far- ther to the northward might have been fatal to us . Cape November . I 2 1764. Cape Blanco at ...
... seven fathom , foon after deep- ening it again from feventeen to forty - two ; fo that we went over the end of a fhoal , which a little far- ther to the northward might have been fatal to us . Cape November . I 2 1764. Cape Blanco at ...
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... seven or eight miles from the shore , for we had many times not more than ten fathom . We continued to ftand along the fhore all day as near as poffible , and in the evening we saw an ifland at the diftance of about fix leagues ; in the ...
... seven or eight miles from the shore , for we had many times not more than ten fathom . We continued to ftand along the fhore all day as near as poffible , and in the evening we saw an ifland at the diftance of about fix leagues ; in the ...
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