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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... morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we : had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ...
... morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we : had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ...
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... morning , our opinion that the land we had been standing for was an island , was confirmed , by our feeing part of the land of Tovy Poenammoo open to the weftward of it , extending as far as W. by S. At eight in the morning , the ...
... morning , our opinion that the land we had been standing for was an island , was confirmed , by our feeing part of the land of Tovy Poenammoo open to the weftward of it , extending as far as W. by S. At eight in the morning , the ...
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... morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land had yet appeared to the fouthward , and as I thought that we had stood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen ...
... morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land had yet appeared to the fouthward , and as I thought that we had stood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen ...
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... morning we faw the land extending as far as S. W. by S. and steered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 45 ° 22 ' S .; and the land , which now ftretched from S. W. S. to N. N. W. appeared to be rudely diverfified by hill ...
... morning we faw the land extending as far as S. W. by S. and steered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 45 ° 22 ' S .; and the land , which now ftretched from S. W. S. to N. N. W. appeared to be rudely diverfified by hill ...
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... morning , the southermost land in fight bore Monday z5 .. W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued ...
... morning , the southermost land in fight bore Monday z5 .. W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued ...
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abreaſt afhore againſt alfo almoſt alſo anchor appeared Auguft Banks Batavia becauſe befides beſt boat bore Botany Bay breeze called Cape Cape Grafton Cape Saunders cloſe coaft coaſt confiderable confifts courſe diftant diſcovered diſtance Dutch eaſt eight Endeavour River Engliſh faid fame fandy fathom fathom water feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhoals fhore fide figns firft firſt fiſh fituation fmall fome fometimes foon four leagues fouth fouthward freſh fteered ftill fuch houſes Indians inhabitants iſlands juſt land in fight latitude leaſt lefs leſs longitude miles Monday morning moſt muſt natives night noon northermoft northward o'clock obfervation paffage paffed perfon pinnace purpoſe reaſon reſembling round ſaw ſcarcely ſeemed ſeen Semau ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall ſmoke ſome ſtood ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thoſe three leagues Thurſday trees Tueſday turtle uſe Wednef weft weftward weſt wind yawl