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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... pieces of timber are to be joined together by the ends , if the ends are cut fquare , another piece is laid upon , and fastened to both , and this is called scarfing . SETING , the act of observing the fituation of any distant object by ...
... pieces of timber are to be joined together by the ends , if the ends are cut fquare , another piece is laid upon , and fastened to both , and this is called scarfing . SETING , the act of observing the fituation of any distant object by ...
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... pieces of this cloth : one of them , a hole having been made in the middle to put the head through , hangs down from the fhoulders to the mid - leg before and behind ; an- other piece , which is between four and five yards long , and ...
... pieces of this cloth : one of them , a hole having been made in the middle to put the head through , hangs down from the fhoulders to the mid - leg before and behind ; an- other piece , which is between four and five yards long , and ...
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... piece of cloth wrapped round their middle . Those who rowed and fteered were dreffed in white ; those who fat upon the ... pieces as they can . They first fell the tree with a kind of hatchet , or adze , made of a tough greenish kind of ...
... piece of cloth wrapped round their middle . Those who rowed and fteered were dreffed in white ; those who fat upon the ... pieces as they can . They first fell the tree with a kind of hatchet , or adze , made of a tough greenish kind of ...
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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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