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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... means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of fome perfons on ...
... means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of fome perfons on ...
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... means of the fame family ,, it must be confeffed that they do honour to the name . But the highest luxury which the fea afforded us , even in this place , was the lobster or fea cray - fish , which are probably the fame that in the ...
... means of the fame family ,, it must be confeffed that they do honour to the name . But the highest luxury which the fea afforded us , even in this place , was the lobster or fea cray - fish , which are probably the fame that in the ...
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... means of the river , fettlements might be extended , and a communication established with the inland parts of the country : veffels might be built of the fine timber which abounds in thefe parts , at very little trouble and expence ...
... means of the river , fettlements might be extended , and a communication established with the inland parts of the country : veffels might be built of the fine timber which abounds in thefe parts , at very little trouble and expence ...
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... means end with the neceffity that produced it : after the practice has been once begun on one fide by hun- ger , it will naturally be adopted on the other by revenge . Nor is this all , for though it may be pretended , by some who wish ...
... means end with the neceffity that produced it : after the practice has been once begun on one fide by hun- ger , it will naturally be adopted on the other by revenge . Nor is this all , for though it may be pretended , by some who wish ...
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... means to make an advantage of us ; and would , therefore , when they had received the price of any thing they had offered to fell , pack up both the pur- chafe and the purchase - money with all poffible composure , as fo much lawful ...
... means to make an advantage of us ; and would , therefore , when they had received the price of any thing they had offered to fell , pack up both the pur- chafe and the purchase - money with all poffible composure , as fo much lawful ...
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