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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... never go far from the land , we continued to found all night , but had no ground with 130 Monday 16. fathom . At noon on the 16th , we were in lati- tude 39 ° 45 ′ S. , longitude 208 ° W. At about two o'clock the wind came about to the ...
... never go far from the land , we continued to found all night , but had no ground with 130 Monday 16. fathom . At noon on the 16th , we were in lati- tude 39 ° 45 ′ S. , longitude 208 ° W. At about two o'clock the wind came about to the ...
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... never able to form the leaft connexion with them : after the first conteft at our landing , they would never come near enough to parley ; nor did they touch a fingle article of all that we had left at their huts , and the places they ...
... never able to form the leaft connexion with them : after the first conteft at our landing , they would never come near enough to parley ; nor did they touch a fingle article of all that we had left at their huts , and the places they ...
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... never before happened upon this coaft ; our longitude was 206 ° 46 ' . At this time we were between two and three leagues from the land , and had twenty - four fa- thom water . A low bluff point , which was the fouth head of a sandy bay ...
... never before happened upon this coaft ; our longitude was 206 ° 46 ' . At this time we were between two and three leagues from the land , and had twenty - four fa- thom water . A low bluff point , which was the fouth head of a sandy bay ...
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... never feen : when he returned , he introduced the strangers by name , a ceremony which , upon fuch occafions , was never omitted . As they had received the fish that was thrown into their canoe , when they firft approached the ship ...
... never feen : when he returned , he introduced the strangers by name , a ceremony which , upon fuch occafions , was never omitted . As they had received the fish that was thrown into their canoe , when they firft approached the ship ...
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... never venture above twenty We now perceived that the colour of their skin was not fo dark as it appeared , what we had taken for their com- plexion , being the effects of dirt and smoke , in which , we imagined , they contrived to fleep ...
... never venture above twenty We now perceived that the colour of their skin was not fo dark as it appeared , what we had taken for their com- plexion , being the effects of dirt and smoke , in which , we imagined , they contrived to fleep ...
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abreaſt afhore alfo almoſt alſo anchor appeared Auguft Banks Batavia becauſe befides boat bore Botany Bay breeze called Cape Cape Conway Cape Grafton Chineſe cloſe coaft confiderable confifts courſe diftant diſcovered diſtance Dutch eaſt Endeavour River eſpecially faid fame fandy fathom fathom water feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhoals fhore fide fire firſt fituation fize fmall fome fometimes foon four leagues fouth fouthward freſh fteered ftill ftones fuch fuppofed himſelf houſes Indians inhabitants iſlands land in fight latitude leaſt lefs longitude mafter miles Monday morning moſt muſt natives night noon northermoft northward o'clock obferved paffage paffed perfon pinnace purpoſe reaſon reſembling round Saturd ſaw ſeemed ſeen Semau ſeven ſeveral ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall Solander ſome ſtood Sunday thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe three leagues Thurfd trees Tueſday turtle uſed Wednef weft weftward wind wood yawl