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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... twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was inhabited , for we faw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling natives in another . i When ...
... twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was inhabited , for we faw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling natives in another . i When ...
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... twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d , at noon , we had no obfervation , Thursday 22 . but by the land judged ourselves to be about three leagues farther north than we ...
... twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d , at noon , we had no obfervation , Thursday 22 . but by the land judged ourselves to be about three leagues farther north than we ...
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... twelve miles eafting during the last twenty- four hours . We ftood to the weftward the remainder of this day , and all the next till fun - fet , when the extreams of the Thursday 8 , land bore from N. by E. to W. distant about feven or ...
... twelve miles eafting during the last twenty- four hours . We ftood to the weftward the remainder of this day , and all the next till fun - fet , when the extreams of the Thursday 8 , land bore from N. by E. to W. distant about feven or ...
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... twelve leagues upon a N. E. N. course , during the laft four and twenty hours . I + We continued to steer along the shore , in the direction of N. E. E. till fix o'clock in the evening , when we brought to Thursday 15. for the night ...
... twelve leagues upon a N. E. N. course , during the laft four and twenty hours . I + We continued to steer along the shore , in the direction of N. E. E. till fix o'clock in the evening , when we brought to Thursday 15. for the night ...
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... twelve wore in fixty - five fathom , having driven several miles N. N. W. after our having brought to . At two in the Saturday 17 morning , we had no ground with 140 fathom , by which it appears that the foundings extend but a little ...
... twelve wore in fixty - five fathom , having driven several miles N. N. W. after our having brought to . At two in the Saturday 17 morning , we had no ground with 140 fathom , by which it appears that the foundings extend but a little ...
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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