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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... miles , as a half minute or quarter minute is to an hour of time . LUG SAIL , a square fail , hoisted occafionally on the mast of a boat , or small veffel , upon a yard which hangs nearly at right angles with the mast . M. To MAKE the ...
... miles , as a half minute or quarter minute is to an hour of time . LUG SAIL , a square fail , hoisted occafionally on the mast of a boat , or small veffel , upon a yard which hangs nearly at right angles with the mast . M. To MAKE the ...
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... miles , with a tide run- ning at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger fhows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed , and walked a little way into the country ...
... miles , with a tide run- ning at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger fhows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed , and walked a little way into the country ...
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... miles after he was wounded , though it appeared when he was taken up that a ball had passed quite through his body . I went this day many miles up the country , and had a long chace after one of the guanicoes , which was the largest we ...
... miles after he was wounded , though it appeared when he was taken up that a ball had passed quite through his body . I went this day many miles up the country , and had a long chace after one of the guanicoes , which was the largest we ...
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... miles with the ftream . In the mean time , I sent another party to fetch the guanicoes which our people had fhot the night before ; but they found nothing deft except the bones , the tygers having eaten the flesh , and even cracked the ...
... miles with the ftream . In the mean time , I sent another party to fetch the guanicoes which our people had fhot the night before ; but they found nothing deft except the bones , the tygers having eaten the flesh , and even cracked the ...
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... miles from the beach , in a direct line from the fhip's station . To these springs I fent twenty hands early in the Wednef 28. morning with fome small cafks called Barecas , and in a few turns they brought on board a tun of water , of ...
... miles from the beach , in a direct line from the fhip's station . To these springs I fent twenty hands early in the Wednef 28. morning with fome small cafks called Barecas , and in a few turns they brought on board a tun of water , of ...
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