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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... o'clock in the afternoon of Friday the 9th of Fe-- bruary , having tacked , we flood S. W. and continued to make fail to the fouthward till sunset on the 11th , when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape ...
... o'clock in the afternoon of Friday the 9th of Fe-- bruary , having tacked , we flood S. W. and continued to make fail to the fouthward till sunset on the 11th , when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape ...
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... o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ...
... o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ...
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... o'clock in the evening , a breeze fprung up at S. S. W. with which I ftretched off fouth east , because some on . board thought they faw land in that quarter . In this courfe Thursday 15. we continued till fix o'clock the next morning ...
... o'clock in the evening , a breeze fprung up at S. S. W. with which I ftretched off fouth east , because some on . board thought they faw land in that quarter . In this courfe Thursday 15. we continued till fix o'clock the next morning ...
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... o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that course till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude ...
... o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that course till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude ...
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... o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the- forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward under two ...
... o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the- forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward under two ...
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