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, Band 3W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... see them . We were at a confiderable distance from the fhore , and he was at a confiderable distance from the ship , which was between him and the shore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be in fome pain for him , fearing ...
... see them . We were at a confiderable distance from the fhore , and he was at a confiderable distance from the ship , which was between him and the shore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be in fome pain for him , fearing ...
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... see while we were failing in a strait line from one Cape to the other ; it is , however , probably of less depth than it appeared to be , for as we found the water fhallower here , than at the same distance from any other part of the ...
... see while we were failing in a strait line from one Cape to the other ; it is , however , probably of less depth than it appeared to be , for as we found the water fhallower here , than at the same distance from any other part of the ...
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... the land is fo low that I could but just see it from the top - maft head . The breakers lie be- tween three and four miles from Point Look - out ; and at this 1770 . May . Wednef . 16 . time we time ROUND THE WORLD . 109.
... the land is fo low that I could but just see it from the top - maft head . The breakers lie be- tween three and four miles from Point Look - out ; and at this 1770 . May . Wednef . 16 . time we time ROUND THE WORLD . 109.
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... see it from the station of the ship ; however , if any future navigator fhould be difpofed to de- termine the question , whether there is or is not a river in this place , which the wind would not permit us to do , the fituation may ...
... see it from the station of the ship ; however , if any future navigator fhould be difpofed to de- termine the question , whether there is or is not a river in this place , which the wind would not permit us to do , the fituation may ...
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... S. E. E. distant about thirteen leagues : at nine , we difcovered land to the westward , and foon after saw smoke in feveral places . Our depth of water was now decreased to seventeen fathom , and by noon we had no more than thirteen ...
... S. E. E. distant about thirteen leagues : at nine , we difcovered land to the westward , and foon after saw smoke in feveral places . Our depth of water was now decreased to seventeen fathom , and by noon we had no more than thirteen ...
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