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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... must be fhelter from all winds , though poffibly there may not be fufficient depth of water . The north point of this bay , when it bears S. E. by S. is rendered very remarkable by five high peaked rocks which lie off it , and have the ...
... must be fhelter from all winds , though poffibly there may not be fufficient depth of water . The north point of this bay , when it bears S. E. by S. is rendered very remarkable by five high peaked rocks which lie off it , and have the ...
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... must have kept in a high fouth- ern latitude in the very depth of winter , with a vessel which was not thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reafon was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope ...
... must have kept in a high fouth- ern latitude in the very depth of winter , with a vessel which was not thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reafon was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope ...
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... 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 Account of Lord Anson's Voyage are ...
... 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 Account of Lord Anson's Voyage are ...
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... must be dreadful ; and even among the inha- bitants of the coaft , many tribes must frequently be reduced to nearly the fame fituation , either by the failure of their plantations , or the deficiency of their dry ftock , during the ...
... must be dreadful ; and even among the inha- bitants of the coaft , many tribes must frequently be reduced to nearly the fame fituation , either by the failure of their plantations , or the deficiency of their dry ftock , during the ...
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... must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will not be much repug- nance to kill . A fenfe of duty , and fear of punishment , may be more easily furmounted than the feelings of ...
... must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will not be much repug- nance to kill . A fenfe of duty , and fear of punishment , may be more easily furmounted than the feelings of ...
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