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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... danger that I have recorded , to the particular interpofition of Providence , that they would , in this particular , allow me the right of private judgment , which I claim with the greater confidence , as the very fame : principle which ...
... danger that I have recorded , to the particular interpofition of Providence , that they would , in this particular , allow me the right of private judgment , which I claim with the greater confidence , as the very fame : principle which ...
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... dangerous ; we were very near striking upon one , and another blew the water in upon the quarter deck : they were much larger than any we had seen ... danger of being 7 being on fhore . They were got off , not 58 COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.
... dangerous ; we were very near striking upon one , and another blew the water in upon the quarter deck : they were much larger than any we had seen ... danger of being 7 being on fhore . They were got off , not 58 COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.
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... danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to shorten fail , it being neceffary to carry all we could fpread , in order to weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now ...
... danger of foundering ; yet we did not dare to shorten fail , it being neceffary to carry all we could fpread , in order to weather the rocky islands , which Sir John Narborough has called the Islands of Direction , for we could not now ...
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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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