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 Endeavor, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773 |
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... steered from it E. S. E. five leagues , to three low rocky iflands which lie about two miles from the main . From these islands we fteered S. S. E. four leagues , to two other low islands , which lie at the distance of about one mile ...
... steered from it E. S. E. five leagues , to three low rocky iflands which lie about two miles from the main . From these islands we fteered S. S. E. four leagues , to two other low islands , which lie at the distance of about one mile ...
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... steered after us , and we imagined that she was either from Falkland's Islands , where the French had then a fettlement , to get wood , or upon a furvey of the Streight . The remaining part of this day , and the next Wednef . 20 ...
... steered after us , and we imagined that she was either from Falkland's Islands , where the French had then a fettlement , to get wood , or upon a furvey of the Streight . The remaining part of this day , and the next Wednef . 20 ...
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... steered about W. S. W. as long as they could be feen from the mast - head , appeared to be about thirty feet long , four feet broad , and three and an half deep . Two of these being brought along fide of each other , were faftened ...
... steered about W. S. W. as long as they could be feen from the mast - head , appeared to be about thirty feet long , four feet broad , and three and an half deep . Two of these being brought along fide of each other , were faftened ...
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OF | 185 |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION Page i | 194 |
An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally understood which | 207 |
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