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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... heads was flat , and not round ; that the women had long black hair , as coarse as a horse's mane ; that the men were excellent archers , and , besides their bow and arrows , carried two maffive balls or bul- lets , each faftened to one ...
... heads was flat , and not round ; that the women had long black hair , as coarse as a horse's mane ; that the men were excellent archers , and , besides their bow and arrows , carried two maffive balls or bul- lets , each faftened to one ...
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... head taller than the inhabit- ants of Europe , and of fuch a ftature that the people on board their veffels called them giants . Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the ...
... head taller than the inhabit- ants of Europe , and of fuch a ftature that the people on board their veffels called them giants . Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the ...
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... heads of the floor - timbers amidships on each fide of the keel . Hence , when a fhip receives a fracture in this place , fhe is faid to be bilged . BIRTH , the ftation in which a fhip rides at anchor . BIRTH , alfo fignifies the room ...
... heads of the floor - timbers amidships on each fide of the keel . Hence , when a fhip receives a fracture in this place , fhe is faid to be bilged . BIRTH , the ftation in which a fhip rides at anchor . BIRTH , alfo fignifies the room ...
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... head of the other , in order to lengthen it . It is for this pur- pose furnished with two holes perpendicular to its length and breadth , and parallel to its thickness ; one of these is fquare , and the other round ; the former being ...
... head of the other , in order to lengthen it . It is for this pur- pose furnished with two holes perpendicular to its length and breadth , and parallel to its thickness ; one of these is fquare , and the other round ; the former being ...
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... edge or bottom . FOOT - ROPE , the rope to which the foot of a fail is fewed . FORE , all that part of a fhip's frame and machinery which lies near the head . 1 G. GAFF , a fort of boom or pole , c 4 G. THE NAUTICAL TERMS . xliii.
... edge or bottom . FOOT - ROPE , the rope to which the foot of a fail is fewed . FORE , all that part of a fhip's frame and machinery which lies near the head . 1 G. GAFF , a fort of boom or pole , c 4 G. THE NAUTICAL TERMS . xliii.
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