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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... soon after coming to the northward , enabled us to get clear of all . Our foundings , while we were paffing within the ledge , were from thirty - five to forty - feven fathom with a rocky bottom . This ledge lies S. E. fix leagues from ...
... soon after coming to the northward , enabled us to get clear of all . Our foundings , while we were paffing within the ledge , were from thirty - five to forty - feven fathom with a rocky bottom . This ledge lies S. E. fix leagues from ...
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... , left their fire , and retired to a little eminence , whence they could conveniently observe our motions . Soon after two canoes , each having two men on board , 7 1770 . April . Saturday 28 . board , came 86 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... , left their fire , and retired to a little eminence , whence they could conveniently observe our motions . Soon after two canoes , each having two men on board , 7 1770 . April . Saturday 28 . board , came 86 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... soon as they found that they were discovered . By the boldness of these people at our first landing , and the terror that seized them at the fight of us afterwards , it appears that they were fuffi- ciently intimidated by our fire ...
... soon as they found that they were discovered . By the boldness of these people at our first landing , and the terror that seized them at the fight of us afterwards , it appears that they were fuffi- ciently intimidated by our fire ...
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... Soon after fun - rife on the 7th , I took several azimuths , Monday 7 ′′ with four needles belonging to the azimuth compass , the mean refult of which gave the variation 7 ° 56 ′ E. At noon , our latitude , by observation , was 33 ° 22 ...
... Soon after fun - rife on the 7th , I took several azimuths , Monday 7 ′′ with four needles belonging to the azimuth compass , the mean refult of which gave the variation 7 ° 56 ′ E. At noon , our latitude , by observation , was 33 ° 22 ...
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... Soon after we saw more land , making like islands , and bear- ing N.W. by N. At nine , we were abreast of the point , at the distance of one mile , with fourteen fathom water . This point I found to lie directly under the Tropic of ...
... Soon after we saw more land , making like islands , and bear- ing N.W. by N. At nine , we were abreast of the point , at the distance of one mile , with fourteen fathom water . This point I found to lie directly under the Tropic of ...
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