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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... use only in diving , and not to accelerate their motion even upon the furface of the water , may , perhaps with equal propriety , be called fins . Neither are infects in greater plenty than birds : a few butterflies and beetles , flesh ...
... use only in diving , and not to accelerate their motion even upon the furface of the water , may , perhaps with equal propriety , be called fins . Neither are infects in greater plenty than birds : a few butterflies and beetles , flesh ...
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... use of the mill - wright . There is another which grows in the swamps , remarkably tall and ftrait , thick enough to make mafts for veffels of any fize , and , if a judgment may be formed by the direction of its grain , very tough ...
... use of the mill - wright . There is another which grows in the swamps , remarkably tall and ftrait , thick enough to make mafts for veffels of any fize , and , if a judgment may be formed by the direction of its grain , very tough ...
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... any quantity . B Gourds are alfo cultivated by the natives of this place , the fruit of which furnishes them with veffels for various uses . We We alfo found here the Chinese paper mulberry tree , 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... any quantity . B Gourds are alfo cultivated by the natives of this place , the fruit of which furnishes them with veffels for various uses . We We alfo found here the Chinese paper mulberry tree , 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... use of our fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the ...
... use of our fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the ...
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... use that which is rancid , and confequently are al- most as disagreeable to the smell as a Hottentot ; neither are their heads free from vermin , though we obferved that they were furnished with combs , both of bone and wood : these ...
... use that which is rancid , and confequently are al- most as disagreeable to the smell as a Hottentot ; neither are their heads free from vermin , though we obferved that they were furnished with combs , both of bone and wood : these ...
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