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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... immediately bore away for it , fending the boats a - head to found . At nine o'clock , the boats making the fignal for 12 fathom , we hauled round a reef , and stood in , with a design to come to an anchor ; but when we came near the ...
... immediately bore away for it , fending the boats a - head to found . At nine o'clock , the boats making the fignal for 12 fathom , we hauled round a reef , and stood in , with a design to come to an anchor ; but when we came near the ...
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... immediately to come on board with his men , and leave the casks behind him : he had , however , discovered his danger , and embarked before the boat reached him . Having perceived the Indians that were creeping towards him under shelter ...
... immediately to come on board with his men , and leave the casks behind him : he had , however , discovered his danger , and embarked before the boat reached him . Having perceived the Indians that were creeping towards him under shelter ...
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... immediately got off fifteen cafks of water , and sent a num- ber of men on fhore with others , that were empty , to be . filled against the next morning , and a strong party to cut wood : but it happened that about two o'clock in the ...
... immediately got off fifteen cafks of water , and sent a num- ber of men on fhore with others , that were empty , to be . filled against the next morning , and a strong party to cut wood : but it happened that about two o'clock 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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