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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... hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a con- fiderable diftance . It extends near two leagues to the north- ward , is lofty , and ...
... hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a con- fiderable diftance . It extends near two leagues to the north- ward , is lofty , and ...
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... hand : while we were run- ning in , we kept the lead continually going , and had from forty to twelve fathom . At fix o'clock in the evening , we anchored in eleven fathom with a muddy bottom , under the weft fhore , in the second cove ...
... hand : while we were run- ning in , we kept the lead continually going , and had from forty to twelve fathom . At fix o'clock in the evening , we anchored in eleven fathom with a muddy bottom , under the weft fhore , in the second cove ...
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... hand of murder than the fenfe of duty , or even the fear of pu- nishment . Among those who are accustomed to eat the dead , death must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will ...
... hand of murder than the fenfe of duty , or even the fear of pu- nishment . Among those who are accustomed to eat the dead , death must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will ...
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... hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of cloth they work borders of different colours , in ftitches , fomewhat like carpeting , or rather like those used in the famplars which girls work at school . These ...
... hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of cloth they work borders of different colours , in ftitches , fomewhat like carpeting , or rather like those used in the famplars which girls work at school . These ...
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... hand for that purpose . Having faid thus much of their workmanship , I shall now give fome account of their tools ; they have adzes , axes , and chiffels , which serve them also as augers for the boring of holes as they have no metal ...
... hand for that purpose . Having faid thus much of their workmanship , I shall now give fome account of their tools ; they have adzes , axes , and chiffels , which serve them also as augers for the boring of holes as they have no metal ...
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