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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... Such navi- gators as have vifited this country , and are filent with refpect to the ftature of the inhabitants , par- ticularly Sir Francis Drake , must be confidered as witneffes against the fact in question ; for their filence is a ...
... Such navi- gators as have vifited this country , and are filent with refpect to the ftature of the inhabitants , par- ticularly Sir Francis Drake , must be confidered as witneffes against the fact in question ; for their filence is a ...
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... Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the Captains Harrington and Carman , who com- manded two French veffels , one from Saint Ma loes , and the other from Marseilles ...
... Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the Captains Harrington and Carman , who com- manded two French veffels , one from Saint Ma loes , and the other from Marseilles ...
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... such of my Readers as may be difpofed to cenfure me for not having attributed any of the critical escapes from danger that I have recorded , to the particu- lar interpofition of Providence , that they would , in this particular , allow ...
... such of my Readers as may be difpofed to cenfure me for not having attributed any of the critical escapes from danger that I have recorded , to the particu- lar interpofition of Providence , that they would , in this particular , allow ...
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... such sen- " timents and obfervations as my subject should " fuggeft , " I wondered at firft at this Gentleman's hafte to vent his resentment against me , before he had informed himself whether I was in fault , 4 which * which not only ...
... such sen- " timents and obfervations as my subject should " fuggeft , " I wondered at firft at this Gentleman's hafte to vent his resentment against me , before he had informed himself whether I was in fault , 4 which * which not only ...
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... 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- foundland , and even distinguished the ...
... 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- foundland , and even distinguished the ...
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