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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... Tuesday 11 . were wet . On Wednesday the 8th , the Tamar fired a gun , upon which we fhortened fail till fhe came up : we found that he had fuffered no damage but the carrying away of her top - fail - yard ; however , as we were obliged ...
... Tuesday 11 . were wet . On Wednesday the 8th , the Tamar fired a gun , upon which we fhortened fail till fhe came up : we found that he had fuffered no damage but the carrying away of her top - fail - yard ; however , as we were obliged ...
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... Tuesday the 16th of October , we weighed Tuesday 16 . anchor , being impatient to get to fea , for the heat here was intolerable ; but we lay four or five days above the bar , waiting for the land breeze to carry September . 1764. us ...
... Tuesday the 16th of October , we weighed Tuesday 16 . anchor , being impatient to get to fea , for the heat here was intolerable ; but we lay four or five days above the bar , waiting for the land breeze to carry September . 1764. us ...
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... Tuesday 16. is so narrow , and fo great a sea breaks in upon them , that it was not without much danger and difficulty we got out at laft , and if we had followed the advice of the Portuguese pilot , we had cer- tainly lost the ship ...
... Tuesday 16. is so narrow , and fo great a sea breaks in upon them , that it was not without much danger and difficulty we got out at laft , and if we had followed the advice of the Portuguese pilot , we had cer- tainly lost the ship ...
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... Tuesday 30 , main - fail ; but in the morning , it being more mo- derate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and ftood to the weftward . We were now in latitude 35 ° 50 ′ 9. and found the weather as cold as it is ...
... Tuesday 30 , main - fail ; but in the morning , it being more mo- derate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and ftood to the weftward . We were now in latitude 35 ° 50 ′ 9. and found the weather as cold as it is ...
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... Tuesday 131 The next day , at four o'clock in the afternoon , the weather being extremely fine , the wind fhifted at once to the S. W. and began to blow fresh , the sky at the same time becoming black to windward : in a few minutes all ...
... Tuesday 131 The next day , at four o'clock in the afternoon , the weather being extremely fine , the wind fhifted at once to the S. W. and began to blow fresh , the sky at the same time becoming black to windward : in a few minutes all ...
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