An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Megellan to the Death of CookOliver & Boyd, 1836 - 496 Seiten |
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... given in most of the works alluded to , tends to repel rather than to invite the attention of the common reader . In the imperfect abridgments which have from time to time appeared , no endeavour is made to supply the deficiencies , or ...
... given in most of the works alluded to , tends to repel rather than to invite the attention of the common reader . In the imperfect abridgments which have from time to time appeared , no endeavour is made to supply the deficiencies , or ...
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... given , has been withdrawn in the last edition , in order to make way for several inte- resting facts and illustrations , derived from various books that have appeared in Great Britain and on the Continent since it was originally issued ...
... given , has been withdrawn in the last edition , in order to make way for several inte- resting facts and illustrations , derived from various books that have appeared in Great Britain and on the Continent since it was originally issued ...
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... given in the present work . The copy in Purchas is accompanied by a chapter of " Animadversions on the said Bull of Pope Alexander , " which cannot fail to gratify the curious in abuse and invective , in which it will scarcely yield the ...
... given in the present work . The copy in Purchas is accompanied by a chapter of " Animadversions on the said Bull of Pope Alexander , " which cannot fail to gratify the curious in abuse and invective , in which it will scarcely yield the ...
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... given the merit of having anticipated Columbus in finding the New World . But the pretensions set forth in be- half of this individual have been traced to an error in attributing to him the construction of a globe made many years after ...
... given the merit of having anticipated Columbus in finding the New World . But the pretensions set forth in be- half of this individual have been traced to an error in attributing to him the construction of a globe made many years after ...
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... given it credit , quoting as his authority the narrative of Pigafetta . As , how- ever , was very early remarked by the President de Brosses , in his " Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes , " Pigafetta , cred- ulous and ...
... given it credit , quoting as his authority the narrative of Pigafetta . As , how- ever , was very early remarked by the President de Brosses , in his " Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes , " Pigafetta , cred- ulous and ...
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Adventure afterwards anchored Anson appeared archipelago arms arrived boats Bougainville Burney called canoes Cape Horn Captain Captain Cook Carteret chief Chron circumnavigation coast cocoa-nuts commander continued Cook Cook's course covered crew discovered discovery Dutch east Easter Island Endeavour English Espiritu Santo expedition farther feet fire gave harbour Hawkesworth's Coll Hist hogs Holland honour Hugh Palliser inhabitants Isles Juan king land latitude leagues longitude Magellan Maire marines Mendana Moluccas morning musket narrative natives navigator nearly observed ocean Otaheite Pacific passage passed Pigafetta Port present proceeded procured Quiros reached received round savages says Schouten seamen seen set sail ship shore sight small island soon South Pole South Sea southern Spain Spaniards squadron stood Straits Straits of Magellan tain Tierra del Fuego tion Van Diemen's Land vessels visited voyage Wallis westward winds wood Zealand
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Seite 84 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Seite 163 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through!
Seite 82 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Seite 481 - To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed in many respects to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.
Seite 334 - as large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it : he had horns and wings, yet he crept so slowly through the grass, that if I had not been afeard I might have touched him.°...
Seite 102 - Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 402 - But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends, I might have extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other.
Seite 21 - They have gold in the greatest abundance, its sources being inexhaustible, 4 but as the king does not allow of its being exported, few merchants visit the country, nor is it frequented by much shipping- from other parts.
Seite 162 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Seite 365 - I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was, indeed, my opinion, as well as the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps joined on some land, to which it had been fixed from the earliest time...