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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... most part of the night ; but at ten in the Sunday 18 .. morning a light breeze sprung up at S. W. by W. when we made fail again along the shore , N. E. by N. having a large swell from the W. S. W. which had risen in the night ; at noon ...
... most part of the night ; but at ten in the Sunday 18 .. morning a light breeze sprung up at S. W. by W. when we made fail again along the shore , N. E. by N. having a large swell from the W. S. W. which had risen in the night ; at noon ...
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... most parts covered with wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ′ , there is a narrow ridge of hills that rifes directly from the fea , and is covered with wood : close behind these hills are the mountains , extending ...
... most parts covered with wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ′ , there is a narrow ridge of hills that rifes directly from the fea , and is covered with wood : close behind these hills are the mountains , extending ...
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... most part a mountainous , and Country . to all appearance a barren country ; and the people whom we saw in Queen Charlotte's Sound , those that came off to us under the fnowy mountains , and the fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were ...
... most part a mountainous , and Country . to all appearance a barren country ; and the people whom we saw in Queen Charlotte's Sound , those that came off to us under the fnowy mountains , and the fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were ...
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... most unbounded confidence , and doing every thing which could incite us to put equal confidence in them . It is also remarkable , that when an intercourfe was once established between us , they were very rarely detected in any act of ...
... most unbounded confidence , and doing every thing which could incite us to put equal confidence in them . It is also remarkable , that when an intercourfe was once established between us , they were very rarely detected in any act of ...
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... most disgustful thing about them is the oil , with which , like the Iflanders , they anoint their hair : it is certainly the fat either of fifh or of birds , melted down , and though the better fort have it fresh , their inferiors use ...
... most disgustful thing about them is the oil , with which , like the Iflanders , they anoint their hair : it is certainly the fat either of fifh or of birds , melted down , and though the better fort have it fresh , their inferiors use ...
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