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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... feemed to be com- ing again to the fouthward , we lost a good deal of way . We 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 ...
... feemed to be com- ing again to the fouthward , we lost a good deal of way . We 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 ...
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... feemed to be gradually dying away , I tacked again and ftood off . The land appeared to be barren and rocky , without either tree or bufh : when I was nearest to it I founded and had forty - five fathom , with black muddy ground . To my ...
... feemed to be gradually dying away , I tacked again and ftood off . The land appeared to be barren and rocky , without either tree or bufh : when I was nearest to it I founded and had forty - five fathom , with black muddy ground . To my ...
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... feemed to be plenty of fish , and we faw many por- poifes fwimming after them , that were as white as fnow , with black spots ; a very uncommon and beautiful fight . The land here has the fame ap- earance as about Port Defire , all ...
... feemed to be plenty of fish , and we faw many por- poifes fwimming after them , that were as white as fnow , with black spots ; a very uncommon and beautiful fight . The land here has the fame ap- earance as about Port Defire , all ...
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... feemed to realize the tales of monsters in a human shape : he had the fkin of fome wild beaft thrown over his fhoulders , as a Scotch Highlander wears his plaid , and was painted fo as to make the most hideous appear- ance I ever beheld ...
... feemed to realize the tales of monsters in a human shape : he had the fkin of fome wild beaft thrown over his fhoulders , as a Scotch Highlander wears his plaid , and was painted fo as to make the most hideous appear- ance I ever beheld ...
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... feemed to us very good , only tafted fomewhat fishly . " I failed along that island to the southward , and " about the fouth weft fide of the island there " feemed to me to be a good place for fhipps to " ride ; I would have had the ...
... feemed to us very good , only tafted fomewhat fishly . " I failed along that island to the southward , and " about the fouth weft fide of the island there " feemed to me to be a good place for fhipps to " ride ; I would have had the ...
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