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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... took his departure . All this day we had frequent squalls and a great fwell . At one in the morning we brought to and founded , Thurfd . 19 . but had no ground with 130 fathom ; at fix we faw land extending from N. E. to W. at the ...
... took his departure . All this day we had frequent squalls and a great fwell . At one in the morning we brought to and founded , Thurfd . 19 . but had no ground with 130 fathom ; at fix we faw land extending from N. E. to W. at the ...
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... took feveral obfervations of the fun and moon , the mean refult of which gave 209 ° 17 ′ longitude W. By an observation made the day before , our longitude was 210 ° 9 ' W. , from which 20 ' being fubtracted , there remains 209 ° 49 ...
... took feveral obfervations of the fun and moon , the mean refult of which gave 209 ° 17 ′ longitude W. By an observation made the day before , our longitude was 210 ° 9 ' W. , from which 20 ' being fubtracted , there remains 209 ° 49 ...
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... took the fame route , and kept abreast of her at a distance ; when she came back , the mafter told us , that in a cove a little within the harbour , fome of them had come down to the beach , and invited him to land by many figns and ...
... took the fame route , and kept abreast of her at a distance ; when she came back , the mafter told us , that in a cove a little within the harbour , fome of them had come down to the beach , and invited him to land by many figns and ...
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... took up and feemed to be well pleased with . I then made figns that I wanted water , and , by all the means that I could devife , endeavoured to convince them that we would do them no harm : they now waved to us , and I was willing to ...
... took up and feemed to be well pleased with . I then made figns that I wanted water , and , by all the means that I could devife , endeavoured to convince them that we would do them no harm : they now waved to us , and I was willing to ...
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... took away with us , to the number of about fifty : they were from fix to fifteen feet long , and all of them had four prongs in the manner of a fish- gig , each of which was pointed with fish - bone , and 1770 . April , and very fharp ...
... took away with us , to the number of about fifty : they were from fix to fifteen feet long , and all of them had four prongs in the manner of a fish- gig , each of which was pointed with fish - bone , and 1770 . April , and very fharp ...
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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