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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... failed from Cape Farewell , which lies in latitude 40 ° 33 ' S. , lon- gitude 186 ° W. , on Saturday the 31st Saturday 31 . of March 1770 , we steered weftward , with a fresh gale at N. N. E. , and at noon on the 2d of April , our ...
... failed from Cape Farewell , which lies in latitude 40 ° 33 ' S. , lon- gitude 186 ° W. , on Saturday the 31st Saturday 31 . of March 1770 , we steered weftward , with a fresh gale at N. N. E. , and at noon on the 2d of April , our ...
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... fail and mizen all night , during which we founded every two hours , but had no ground with 120 fathom . In the morning of the 18th , we faw two Port Wednes . 18 . Egmont hens , and a pintado bird , which are certain figns of ...
... fail and mizen all night , during which we founded every two hours , but had no ground with 120 fathom . In the morning of the 18th , we faw two Port Wednes . 18 . Egmont hens , and a pintado bird , which are certain figns of ...
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... fail , and brought to for the night , having fifty- fix fathom water , and a fine fandy bottom . The northermoft land in fight then bore N. by E. E. , and a small island lying close to a point on the main bore W. diftant two leagues ...
... fail , and brought to for the night , having fifty- fix fathom water , and a fine fandy bottom . The northermoft land in fight then bore N. by E. E. , and a small island lying close to a point on the main bore W. diftant two leagues ...
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... fail , and founded : we found forty - four fathom water , with a clear fandy bottom , and stood on under an easy fail till twelve , when we brought to for the night , and had ninety fathom water . At four in the morning , we made fail ...
... fail , and founded : we found forty - four fathom water , with a clear fandy bottom , and stood on under an easy fail till twelve , when we brought to for the night , and had ninety fathom water . At four in the morning , we made fail ...
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... fail in for the land ; Sunday 22 . but at day - break , found our fituation nearly the fame as it had been at five the evening before , which it was apparent that we had been driven about three leagues to the southward , by a tide or ...
... fail in for the land ; Sunday 22 . but at day - break , found our fituation nearly the fame as it had been at five the evening before , which it was apparent that we had been driven about three leagues to the southward , by a tide or ...
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