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: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 4W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... shore to the northward , with a foutherly wind , and in the afternoon we faw fmoke in feveral places , by which we knew the country to be inhabited . At fix in the evening , we fhortened fail , and founded : we found forty - four fathom ...
... shore to the northward , with a foutherly wind , and in the afternoon we faw fmoke in feveral places , by which we knew the country to be inhabited . At fix in the evening , we fhortened fail , and founded : we found forty - four fathom ...
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... shore N. by E. and N. N. E. at the distance of about three leagues , and saw smoke in many places near the beach . At five in the evening , we were abreast of a point of land which rofe in a perpendicular cliff , and which , for that ...
... shore N. by E. and N. N. E. at the distance of about three leagues , and saw smoke in many places near the beach . At five in the evening , we were abreast of a point of land which rofe in a perpendicular cliff , and which , for that ...
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... shore , we had feventy fathom water . The Pigeon House bore N. 45 W. Mount Dromedary S. 30 W. and the northernmoft land in fight N. 19 E. We stood to the north - eaft till noon the next Tuesday 24 day , with a gentle breeze at N. W. ...
... shore , we had feventy fathom water . The Pigeon House bore N. 45 W. Mount Dromedary S. 30 W. and the northernmoft land in fight N. 19 E. We stood to the north - eaft till noon the next Tuesday 24 day , with a gentle breeze at N. W. ...
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... shore feemed to form a bay , which promised shelter from the north - eaft winds , but as the wind was with us , it was not in my power to look into it without beating up , which would have coft me more time than I was willing to fpare ...
... shore feemed to form a bay , which promised shelter from the north - eaft winds , but as the wind was with us , it was not in my power to look into it without beating up , which would have coft me more time than I was willing to fpare ...
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... shore , and had forty - eight fathom water : the variation by azimuth was 8 ° 48 ′ E. and the ex- tremities of this land were from N. E. by N. to S. W. by S. Before it was dark , we saw smoke in feveral places along the fhore , and a ...
... shore , and had forty - eight fathom water : the variation by azimuth was 8 ° 48 ′ E. and the ex- tremities of this land were from N. E. by N. to S. W. by S. Before it was dark , we saw smoke in feveral places along the fhore , and a ...
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