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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... observation , was 40 ° , our longitude from Cape Farewell 2 ° 31 ' W. April . Monday 2 . In the morning of the 9th , being in latitude Monday 9 . 389 29 ' S. we faw a tropic bird , which in fo high a latitude is very uncommon . In the ...
... observation , was 40 ° , our longitude from Cape Farewell 2 ° 31 ' W. April . Monday 2 . In the morning of the 9th , being in latitude Monday 9 . 389 29 ' S. we faw a tropic bird , which in fo high a latitude is very uncommon . In the ...
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... little wind , we had an opportunity to take several observations of the fun and moon , the mean result of which gave 207 ° 56 ′ W. longitude : our latitude at noon 1770 . April . noon was 39 ° 36 ' 5 2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... little wind , we had an opportunity to take several observations of the fun and moon , the mean result of which gave 207 ° 56 ′ W. longitude : our latitude at noon 1770 . April . noon was 39 ° 36 ' 5 2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... observation made the day before , our longitude was 210 ° 9 ' W. , from which 20 ' being fubtracted , there remains 209 ° 49 ' , the longitude of the ship this day at noon , the mean of which , with this day's obfervation , gives 209 ...
... observation made the day before , our longitude was 210 ° 9 ' W. , from which 20 ' being fubtracted , there remains 209 ° 49 ' , the longitude of the ship this day at noon , the mean of which , with this day's obfervation , gives 209 ...
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... observed , abound with birds of exquifite beauty , particularly of the parrot kind ; we found also crows here , exactly the fame with thofe in England . About the head of the harbour , where there are large flats of fand and mud , there ...
... observed , abound with birds of exquifite beauty , particularly of the parrot kind ; we found also crows here , exactly the fame with thofe in England . About the head of the harbour , where there are large flats of fand and mud , there ...
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... observe that they eat any of them raw , nor do they always go on fhore to drefs them , for they have frequently fires in their canoes for that purpose . They do not however fubfift wholly upon this food , for they catch a variety of ...
... observe that they eat any of them raw , nor do they always go on fhore to drefs them , for they have frequently fires in their canoes for that purpose . They do not however fubfift wholly upon this food , for they catch a variety of ...
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