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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... fifh : that they seized the women of the country , to whom their brutality was fatal , and afterwards giving themselves up to worse vices , the whole race was was deftroyed by fire from heaven , which how- ever xii GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... fifh : that they seized the women of the country , to whom their brutality was fatal , and afterwards giving themselves up to worse vices , the whole race was was deftroyed by fire from heaven , which how- ever xii GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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... fire from heaven , which how- ever left their bones unconfumed , as a lafting memorial of Divine vengeance . Bones of an amazing fize are faid to have been found in this country , and fragments of teeth , which , if they were whole ...
... fire from heaven , which how- ever left their bones unconfumed , as a lafting memorial of Divine vengeance . Bones of an amazing fize are faid to have been found in this country , and fragments of teeth , which , if they were whole ...
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... fire - arms , in the course of these expeditions , when they endeavour- ed to reprefs the invaders of their country ; a re- gret which I am confident my Readers will par- ticipate with me : this however appears to be an evil which , if ...
... fire - arms , in the course of these expeditions , when they endeavour- ed to reprefs the invaders of their country ; a re- gret which I am confident my Readers will par- ticipate with me : this however appears to be an evil which , if ...
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... fire happened to break out , or a ftorm to rife , but that by the interpofition of Providence life was preserved , expreffions which imply that the mischief had one origin , and the remedy another ; but fuch language certainly de ...
... fire happened to break out , or a ftorm to rife , but that by the interpofition of Providence life was preserved , expreffions which imply that the mischief had one origin , and the remedy another ; but fuch language certainly de ...
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... fire , or an extraordinary phenome- non which greatly resembled it , at some 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 ...
... fire , or an extraordinary phenome- non which greatly resembled it , at some 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 ...
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