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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... beaches ; but having fteered out for about an hour , what we had taken for land , vanished all at once , and to our great aftonishment appeared to have been a fog - bank . Though I had been almost continually at fea for seven and twenty ...
... beaches ; but having fteered out for about an hour , what we had taken for land , vanished all at once , and to our great aftonishment appeared to have been a fog - bank . Though I had been almost continually at fea for seven and twenty ...
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... beach . The anchoring ground indeed as far as we had yet founded was bad , being very hard ; fo that , in this fituation , if the wind blows fresh , there is always the greatest reafon to fear that the anchor should come home before the ...
... beach . The anchoring ground indeed as far as we had yet founded was bad , being very hard ; fo that , in this fituation , if the wind blows fresh , there is always the greatest reafon to fear that the anchor should come home before the ...
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... beach for that purpose . November Tuesday 27 . On the 27th , fome of our people , who had been afhore on the north fide of the bay to try for more guanicoes , found the skull and bones of a man , which they brought off with them , and ...
... beach for that purpose . November Tuesday 27 . On the 27th , fome of our people , who had been afhore on the north fide of the bay to try for more guanicoes , found the skull and bones of a man , which they brought off with them , and ...
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... beach , it would be a very con- venient place for ships to touch at , if it were not for the rapidity of the tide . The country about the bay abounds with guanicoes , and a great va- riety of wild fowl , particularly ducks , geefe , wid ...
... beach , it would be a very con- venient place for ships to touch at , if it were not for the rapidity of the tide . The country about the bay abounds with guanicoes , and a great va- riety of wild fowl , particularly ducks , geefe , wid ...
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... beach , with Mr. Marshall , my Second Lieutenant , and a party of men , very well armed ; Mr. Cumming , my First Lieutenant , following in the fix oar'd cutter . When we came within a little distance of the shore , we faw , as near as I ...
... beach , with Mr. Marshall , my Second Lieutenant , and a party of men , very well armed ; Mr. Cumming , my First Lieutenant , following in the fix oar'd cutter . When we came within a little distance of the shore , we faw , as near as I ...
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