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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... thing remarkable : it rifes into hills directly from the fea , and is covered with wood ; but the weather being foggy while we were upon this part of the coaft , we could fee very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the ...
... thing remarkable : it rifes into hills directly from the fea , and is covered with wood ; but the weather being foggy while we were upon this part of the coaft , we could fee very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the ...
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... thing in them which he knew to be ore : if he had had an opportunity to examine any of the bare rocks , perhaps he might have been more fortunate . He was also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral ...
... thing in them which he knew to be ore : if he had had an opportunity to examine any of the bare rocks , perhaps he might have been more fortunate . He was also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral ...
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... thing we can : make with hemp , that they will not bear a comparison .. From the fame plant , by another preparation , they draw long flender fibres which shine like filk , and are as white as fnow : of these , which are also ...
... thing we can : make with hemp , that they will not bear a comparison .. From the fame plant , by another preparation , they draw long flender fibres which shine like filk , and are as white as fnow : of these , which are also ...
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... 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 dishonesty . Before , indeed , and while they ...
... 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 dishonesty . Before , indeed , and while they ...
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... 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 that which is ...
... 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 that which is ...
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