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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... began to be frequented by European veffels , they hid themselves as foon as the ships were in fight , which accounts both for their not being feen , and for the recent marks of inhabit- ants upon a coaft that appeared to be defart ...
... began to be frequented by European veffels , they hid themselves as foon as the ships were in fight , which accounts both for their not being feen , and for the recent marks of inhabit- ants upon a coaft that appeared to be defart ...
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... , very foon affected our health , and the men began to fall down in fevers , notwith- standing all my attention and diligence to make B 3 them 1764. them fhift themselves before they flept , when they ROUND THE WORLD .
... , very foon affected our health , and the men began to fall down in fevers , notwith- standing all my attention and diligence to make B 3 them 1764. them fhift themselves before they flept , when they ROUND THE WORLD .
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... began to see a great number of birds about the fhip , many of them very large , of which fome were brown and white , and fome black : there were among them large flocks of pintadoes , which are fomewhat larger than a pigeon , and ...
... began to see a great number of birds about the fhip , many of them very large , of which fome were brown and white , and fome black : there were among them large flocks of pintadoes , which are fomewhat larger than a pigeon , and ...
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... began to blow fresh , the sky at the same time becoming black to windward : in a few minutes all the people that were upon the deck were alarmed with a fudden and unusual noise , like the breaking of the sea upon the fshore . I or ...
... began to blow fresh , the sky at the same time becoming black to windward : in a few minutes all the people that were upon the deck were alarmed with a fudden and unusual noise , like the breaking of the sea upon the fshore . I or ...
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... began to blow very hard again , fo that we reefed our main fail , and lay to under it all night . As morning approached , Wednef . 14 . the gale became more moderate , but we had ftill a great fea , and the wind shifting to S. by W. we ...
... began to blow very hard again , fo that we reefed our main fail , and lay to under it all night . As morning approached , Wednef . 14 . the gale became more moderate , but we had ftill a great fea , and the wind shifting to S. by W. we ...
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