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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... night of Friday the 6th , the officer of the first watch faw Friday 6 . either a ship on fire , or an extraordinary phenome- non which greatly resembled it , at some distance : it continued to blaze for about half an hour , and then ...
... night of Friday the 6th , the officer of the first watch faw Friday 6 . either a ship on fire , or an extraordinary phenome- non which greatly resembled it , at some distance : it continued to blaze for about half an hour , and then ...
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... Tamar had the good fortune to learn where her's were detained , and by fending out a party in the night , furprised them , and brought them back . CHAP . CHA P. II . Paffage from Rio de Janeiro to 8 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
... Tamar had the good fortune to learn where her's were detained , and by fending out a party in the night , furprised them , and brought them back . CHAP . CHA P. II . Paffage from Rio de Janeiro to 8 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
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... night , fo that Mcn1ay 29. we were obliged to lie to under a double - reefed Tuesday 30 , main - fail ; but in the morning , it being more mo- derate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and ftood to the weftward ...
... night , fo that Mcn1ay 29. we were obliged to lie to under a double - reefed Tuesday 30 , main - fail ; but in the morning , it being more mo- derate , and veering from N. W. to S. by W. we made fail again , and ftood to the weftward ...
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... night , and the next morning had fifty - two fathom Monday 12 , with the fame ground : our latitude was 42 ° 34 ' S. , longitude 58 ° 17 ' W .; the variation 11 ° E. On Monday the 12th , about four o'clock in the afternoon , as I was ...
... night , and the next morning had fifty - two fathom Monday 12 , with the fame ground : our latitude was 42 ° 34 ' S. , longitude 58 ° 17 ' W .; the variation 11 ° E. On Monday the 12th , about four o'clock in the afternoon , as I was ...
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... night , I think the ship must have been loft . When it came on we observed several hundred of birds flying before it , which expreffed their terror by loud fhrieks ; it lafted about twenty minutes , and then gradually fubfided . The ...
... night , I think the ship must have been loft . When it came on we observed several hundred of birds flying before it , which expreffed their terror by loud fhrieks ; it lafted about twenty minutes , and then gradually fubfided . The ...
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