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 3W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from . New Zealand , and various ...
... round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from . New Zealand , and various ...
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... ; Government , Religion , and Language : With fome Reafons against the Existence of a Southern Continent . 392 1 AN A Voyage round the World BY LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK . CONTENT S. CHA P III OF THIRD VOLUM BOOK I CHA P XVI.
... ; Government , Religion , and Language : With fome Reafons against the Existence of a Southern Continent . 392 1 AN A Voyage round the World BY LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK . CONTENT S. CHA P III OF THIRD VOLUM BOOK I CHA P XVI.
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... fhould be fet at li- berty . The tables were now turned upon me ; but I had proceeded too far to retreat . I imme- diately dispatched Mr. Hicks in the long - boat , 1769 . July . with a ftrong party of men with ROUND THE WORLD . 9.
... fhould be fet at li- berty . The tables were now turned upon me ; but I had proceeded too far to retreat . I imme- diately dispatched Mr. Hicks in the long - boat , 1769 . July . with a ftrong party of men with ROUND THE WORLD . 9.
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... the middle of the ifland , which bears due fouth from Point Ve- To fail into it , either keep the weft point of the reef that lies before Point Venus , clofe nus . VOL . III . C on 1769 . on board , or give it a birth ROUND THE WORLD . 17.
... the middle of the ifland , which bears due fouth from Point Ve- To fail into it , either keep the weft point of the reef that lies before Point Venus , clofe nus . VOL . III . C on 1769 . on board , or give it a birth ROUND THE WORLD . 17.
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... round their ears , and the men , except the fishers , who are almost continually in the water , fuffer it to flow in large waves over their shoulders , or tie up in a bunch on the top of their heads . it C 4 They Drefs . 1769 . They ...
... round their ears , and the men , except the fishers , who are almost continually in the water , fuffer it to flow in large waves over their shoulders , or tie up in a bunch on the top of their heads . it C 4 They Drefs . 1769 . They ...
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Seite 142 - I was now prompted, by my desire to avoid further hostilities, to get some of them on board, as the only method left of convincing them that we intended them no harm, and had it in our power to contribute to their gratification and convenience. Thus far my intentions certainly were not criminal ; and though in the contest, which I had not the least reason to expect, our victory might have been complete without so great an expense of life, yet in such situations, when the command to fire has been...
Seite 21 - ... no change for many months : it is taken out of the hole as it is wanted for use, and being made into balls, it is wrapped up in leaves and baked ; after it is dressed, it will keep five or six weeks. It is eaten both cold and hot, and the natives seldom make a meal without it, though to us the taste was as disagreeable as that of a pickled olive generally is the first time it is eaten.
Seite 378 - ... in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Seite 93 - ... in one end of it was a square hole, in the middle of which was a ring touching the sides, and leaving the angles open, so as to form a round hole within a square one.
Seite 24 - ... fifteen ripe bananas, or six or seven apples. He first takes half a bread-fruit, peels off the rind, and takes out the core with his nails ; of this he puts as much into his mouth as it can hold, and while he chews it, takes the fish out of the leaves and breaks one of them into the...
Seite 315 - W. From this time to six in the evening it was calm ; but a light breeze then springing up at ENE we steered SSE .all night, edging off from the land, the hollow swell still continuing; our depth of water was from sixty to seventy-five fathom. While we were becalmed, Mr, Banks, being out in the boat, shot two Port Egmont hens, which were in every respect the same as those that are found in great, numbers upon the island of Faro, and were the first of the kind we had seen upon this coast, though we...
Seite 349 - Of this plant there are two sorts ; the leaves of both resemble those of flags, but the flowers are smaller, and their clusters more numerous ; in one kind they are yellow, and in the other a deep red.
Seite 70 - The blood copiously follows, and is carefully received upon pieces of linen, which are thrown under the bier. The rest of the women follow this example, and the ceremony is repeated at the interval of two or three days, as long as the zeal and sorrow of the parties hold out. The tears also which are shed upon these occasions, are received upon pieces of cloth, and offered as oblations to the dead : Some of the...
Seite 25 - ... or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his bread-fruit and fish, he begins with his plantains, one of which makes but a mouthful, though it be as big as a black-pudding ; if...