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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... distance from the fhore , and generally out of anchor- ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any diftant object , to which the fight or paffage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is ...
... distance from the fhore , and generally out of anchor- ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any diftant object , to which the fight or paffage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is ...
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... distance . To the middle of the rope are fuf- pended two cannon fhot , or fomething which weighs heavy , in order to fink it to the ground : so that , as the boats boats advance by rowing ahead , the rope drags along 1 AN EXPLANATION OF.
... distance . To the middle of the rope are fuf- pended two cannon fhot , or fomething which weighs heavy , in order to fink it to the ground : so that , as the boats boats advance by rowing ahead , the rope drags along 1 AN EXPLANATION OF.
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... distance : it 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 ...
... distance : it 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 ...
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... distance . Ships in thefe hot latitudes gene- rally take fish in plenty , but , except sharks , we were not able to catch one . No event worthy of notice happened till Tuef- day the 11th of September , when , about three o'clock in the ...
... distance . Ships in thefe hot latitudes gene- rally take fish in plenty , but , except sharks , we were not able to catch one . No event worthy of notice happened till Tuef- day the 11th of September , when , about three o'clock in the ...
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... distance in dark rainy weather , and now many of the people faid that they faw the fea break upon the fandy beaches ; but having fteered out for about an hour , what we had taken for land , vanished all at once , and to our great ...
... distance in dark rainy weather , and now many of the people faid that they faw the fea break upon the fandy beaches ; but having fteered out for about an hour , what we had taken for land , vanished all at once , and to our great ...
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