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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... feet high ; but acknowledges that he faw no other fo tall . " Of this fact there are other ocular witneffes who perhaps may be thought more worthy of credit ; among the Spaniards , Magellan , Loaifa , Sarmiento , and Nodal ; among the ...
... feet high ; but acknowledges that he faw no other fo tall . " Of this fact there are other ocular witneffes who perhaps may be thought more worthy of credit ; among the Spaniards , Magellan , Loaifa , Sarmiento , and Nodal ; among the ...
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... feet high , which convinced him that the reports of former navigators were true ; and here it must be confeffed that the examination was made in cold blood , when it cannot be pre- tended that the object was magnified by fear , Some ...
... feet high , which convinced him that the reports of former navigators were true ; and here it must be confeffed that the examination was made in cold blood , when it cannot be pre- tended that the object was magnified by fear , Some ...
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... feet high , and were the fame race with the Patagonians who live on the eastern coaft , and have been mentioned in former relations . We are told by Reaveneau de Luffan , that the Spaniards who live upon the fea coaft in South America ...
... feet high , and were the fame race with the Patagonians who live on the eastern coaft , and have been mentioned in former relations . We are told by Reaveneau de Luffan , that the Spaniards who live upon the fea coaft in South America ...
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... feet of the favages on the coafts of the Streight of Magellan , which , he fays , were of the common fize : he had alfo feveral times feen numerous companies of them even at Port Saint Julian , and these he declares not to be taller or ...
... feet of the favages on the coafts of the Streight of Magellan , which , he fays , were of the common fize : he had alfo feveral times feen numerous companies of them even at Port Saint Julian , and these he declares not to be taller or ...
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... feet . The Tamar worked into the harbour with the tide of flood , but I kept my station with the Dol- phin till I should have a leading wind , and the wind fhifting to the eastward , I weighed about five o'clock in the afternoon ...
... feet . The Tamar worked into the harbour with the tide of flood , but I kept my station with the Dol- phin till I should have a leading wind , and the wind fhifting to the eastward , I weighed about five o'clock in the afternoon ...
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