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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... continued in their hiding - places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reftored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo showed him many marks upon a rock ...
... continued in their hiding - places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reftored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo showed him many marks upon a rock ...
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... continued till they thought fit to return it . tt " Mr. Dalrymple fays , " that he did not expect t to find himself mentioned by name in the work I have just published , " but whatever this Gentle- man's expectations may have been , no ...
... continued till they thought fit to return it . tt " Mr. Dalrymple fays , " that he did not expect t to find himself mentioned by name in the work I have just published , " but whatever this Gentle- man's expectations may have been , no ...
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... continued to blaze for about half an hour , and then disappeared . In the evening of Thursday , Thurfd . 12 . July the 12th , we faw the rocks near the island of Madeira , which our people call the Deferters ; B 2 from July . 1764. from ...
... continued to blaze for about half an hour , and then disappeared . In the evening of Thursday , Thurfd . 12 . July the 12th , we faw the rocks near the island of Madeira , which our people call the Deferters ; B 2 from July . 1764. from ...
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... continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fifh would come near enough to our copper bottom for us to ftrike , though we faw the sea as it were quickened with them at a little distance . Ships in thefe hot latitudes ...
... continued , to our great mortification , to obferve that no fifh would come near enough to our copper bottom for us to ftrike , though we faw the sea as it were quickened with them at a little distance . Ships in thefe hot latitudes ...
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... continued our course till Monday the 29th , Monday 29 . having frequently hard gales with fudden gufts , which obliged us to ftrike our top - gallant - mafts , and get up our ftumps ; but this day it blew a storm , with a terrible sea ...
... continued our course till Monday the 29th , Monday 29 . having frequently hard gales with fudden gufts , which obliged us to ftrike our top - gallant - mafts , and get up our ftumps ; but this day it blew a storm , with a terrible sea ...
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