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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... September . During this time we made many attempts to get near enough to go on fhore , but without fuccefs ; and having now loft fix days of fair wind , at a time when we knew the fouth - eaft monfoon to be nearly at an end , we began ...
... September . During this time we made many attempts to get near enough to go on fhore , but without fuccefs ; and having now loft fix days of fair wind , at a time when we knew the fouth - eaft monfoon to be nearly at an end , we began ...
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... September . pregnated with the fragrance of the trees , fhrubs , and herbage that covered it , the smell being fomething like that of Gum Benja Monday 3 min . On the 3d of September , at day - break ; we saw the land extending from N ...
... September . pregnated with the fragrance of the trees , fhrubs , and herbage that covered it , the smell being fomething like that of Gum Benja Monday 3 min . On the 3d of September , at day - break ; we saw the land extending from N ...
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... September . Monday 3 . the wood , and at the diftance of about two 17.0 . hundred yards from the place where we landed , we came to a grove of cocoa - nut trees , which . stood upon the banks of a little brook of brackish The trees were ...
... September . Monday 3 . the wood , and at the diftance of about two 17.0 . hundred yards from the place where we landed , we came to a grove of cocoa - nut trees , which . stood upon the banks of a little brook of brackish The trees were ...
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... September . Monday 3 . lefs rifk of life , than it would coft to defend ourfelves against their attack if they should come nearer , we loaded our pieces with ball , and fired a fecond time : by this discharge it is pro- bable that fome ...
... September . Monday 3 . lefs rifk of life , than it would coft to defend ourfelves against their attack if they should come nearer , we loaded our pieces with ball , and fired a fecond time : by this discharge it is pro- bable that fome ...
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... September . of the fame ftature , and having their hair short cropped like them alfo they were all ftark naked , but we thought the colour of their skin Monday 3 . was not quite fo dark ; this however might per- haps be merely the ...
... September . of the fame ftature , and having their hair short cropped like them alfo they were all ftark naked , but we thought the colour of their skin Monday 3 . was not quite fo dark ; this however might per- haps be merely the ...
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