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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... she was what the failors call a good fea boat , was more roomy , would take and lie on the ground better , and might be navigated by fewer men than other veffels of the fame burden . Her complement of officers and men was Lieu- tenant ...
... she was what the failors call a good fea boat , was more roomy , would take and lie on the ground better , and might be navigated by fewer men than other veffels of the fame burden . Her complement of officers and men was Lieu- tenant ...
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... she must have been beaten to pieces ; but either the fubfiding of the wind was a mere natural event or not ; if it was a natural event , providence is out of the question , at least we can with no more propriety fay that providentially ...
... she must have been beaten to pieces ; but either the fubfiding of the wind was a mere natural event or not ; if it was a natural event , providence is out of the question , at least we can with no more propriety fay that providentially ...
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... she used to make them the fubject of her difcourfe to all who happened to be prefent ; and growing angry at the fuppofed injuries fhe had received , he never failed to pick a quarrel with them , and was by no means fparing of her abufe ...
... she used to make them the fubject of her difcourfe to all who happened to be prefent ; and growing angry at the fuppofed injuries fhe had received , he never failed to pick a quarrel with them , and was by no means fparing of her abufe ...
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... she is turning to windward , or fail- ing against the direction of the wind . BOW , the rounding part of a fhip's fide forward , beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards , and terminating where they clofe at the ftem or prow ...
... she is turning to windward , or fail- ing against the direction of the wind . BOW , the rounding part of a fhip's fide forward , beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards , and terminating where they clofe at the ftem or prow ...
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... she has been laid on a careen . fhip is also faid to right at fea when the rifes , with her mafts erected , after having been preffed down on one fide by the effort of her fails , or a heavy fquall of wind . f S. S. SCARFING , when two ...
... she has been laid on a careen . fhip is also faid to right at fea when the rifes , with her mafts erected , after having been preffed down on one fide by the effort of her fails , or a heavy fquall of wind . f S. S. SCARFING , when two ...
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