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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... anchor ; but by the help of a light air now and then from the S. W. I was able to keep the ship from driving . At noon , the northermoft land in fight bore N. E. by E. E. diftant about ten leagues ; our latitude , by ac count , was 40 ...
... anchor ; but by the help of a light air now and then from the S. W. I was able to keep the ship from driving . At noon , the northermoft land in fight bore N. E. by E. E. diftant about ten leagues ; our latitude , by ac count , was 40 ...
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... anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General , and it is now generally ...
... anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General , and it is now generally ...
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... anchor , the boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a ftill more ample supply ; so that both times , when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mefs in ...
... anchor , the boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a ftill more ample supply ; so that both times , when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mefs in ...
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... anchor . During this courfe , we discovered with our glaffes that the land was covered with palm - nut- trees , which we had not feen from the time of our leaving the islands within the Tropick : we alfo faw two men walk- ing along the ...
... anchor . During this courfe , we discovered with our glaffes that the land was covered with palm - nut- trees , which we had not feen from the time of our leaving the islands within the Tropick : we alfo faw two men walk- ing along the ...
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... anchor to the eastward of Bustard Bay . At fix in the morning we weighed , with a gentle breeze at South , and flood away to the N. W. between the outer- most range of iflands and the main , leaving several small islands between the ...
... anchor to the eastward of Bustard Bay . At fix in the morning we weighed , with a gentle breeze at South , and flood away to the N. W. between the outer- most range of iflands and the main , leaving several small islands between the ...
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