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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... foon after his acceffion to the crown , formed a defign of fending out veffels for making discoveries of countries hitherto unknown , and in the year 1764 , the kingdom being then in a ftate of profound peace , he pro- ceeded to put it ...
... foon after his acceffion to the crown , formed a defign of fending out veffels for making discoveries of countries hitherto unknown , and in the year 1764 , the kingdom being then in a ftate of profound peace , he pro- ceeded to put it ...
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... foon exhaust- ed , and they were obliged to live upon 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 ...
... foon exhaust- ed , and they were obliged to live upon 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 ...
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... foon as the ships were in fight , which accounts both for their not being feen , and for the recent marks of inhabit- ants upon a coaft that appeared to be defart . -Perhaps the frequent appearance of our fhips upon this coast , at ...
... foon as the ships were in fight , which accounts both for their not being feen , and for the recent marks of inhabit- ants upon a coaft that appeared to be defart . -Perhaps the frequent appearance of our fhips upon this coast , at ...
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... foon after they came into a hot climate ; but the wonder will ceafe , when it is confidered that all mariners have a fuperftitious opinion that the compass will not traverse if there is a dead body on board the veffel . " Upon the whole ...
... foon after they came into a hot climate ; but the wonder will ceafe , when it is confidered that all mariners have a fuperftitious opinion that the compass will not traverse if there is a dead body on board the veffel . " Upon the whole ...
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... foon discovered that my book found him in an ill- humour . He pathetically complains of an in- fluence which prevented him from going in the Endeavour ; of an injury done him in depriving him of the fhip he had chofen for the voyage ...
... foon discovered that my book found him in an ill- humour . He pathetically complains of an in- fluence which prevented him from going in the Endeavour ; of an injury done him in depriving him of the fhip he had chofen for the voyage ...
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