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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... eight o'clock in the evening , Cape Forward bore N. W. W. and was distant about a mile , and we brought to for the night . This part of the Streight is about eight miles over , and off the Cape we had forty fathom within half a cable's ...
... eight o'clock in the evening , Cape Forward bore N. W. W. and was distant about a mile , and we brought to for the night . This part of the Streight is about eight miles over , and off the Cape we had forty fathom within half a cable's ...
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... eight in the Thursday 14. morning , the wind became moderate and variable , from N. N. W. to W. S. W. We got out our longboat and weighed the ftream anchor , and at nine made fail . We found the current ftill very frong to the caftward ...
... eight in the Thursday 14. morning , the wind became moderate and variable , from N. N. W. to W. S. W. We got out our longboat and weighed the ftream anchor , and at nine made fail . We found the current ftill very frong to the caftward ...
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... eight miles an hour , with the wind at eaft , it died away at once ; fo that within less than two minutes the fhip ... eight . In the night between the 21st and 22d we loft our com- Sunday 21 . panion the Swallow , and about eight in the ...
... eight miles an hour , with the wind at eaft , it died away at once ; fo that within less than two minutes the fhip ... eight . In the night between the 21st and 22d we loft our com- Sunday 21 . panion the Swallow , and about eight in the ...
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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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