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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... Brazil had been visited some months previously by Diego Lepe , and still earlier by Vicente Yanez Pinzon , who was the first to cross the equator in the Atlantic . sumption of power . So early as 1497 , an 28 DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH SEA .
... Brazil had been visited some months previously by Diego Lepe , and still earlier by Vicente Yanez Pinzon , who was the first to cross the equator in the Atlantic . sumption of power . So early as 1497 , an 28 DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH SEA .
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... month after the ships destined for the voyage had been launched , their planks were so destroyed by worms as to render them quite useless . No better success had followed an attempt which was made in 1515 to find an open- ing into the ...
... month after the ships destined for the voyage had been launched , their planks were so destroyed by worms as to render them quite useless . No better success had followed an attempt which was made in 1515 to find an open- ing into the ...
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... months . Discontent , and at last open mutiny , broke out in his ships , the ringleaders being certain Spanish officers , who felt mortified at serving under a Portu- guese commander . The first step taken to restore order , however ...
... months . Discontent , and at last open mutiny , broke out in his ships , the ringleaders being certain Spanish officers , who felt mortified at serving under a Portu- guese commander . The first step taken to restore order , however ...
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... months were afterwards passed at Santa Cruz , where the squadron was well supplied with wood and water ; and , on the 18th October , standing southward , they discovered Cape de las Virgines , and shortly afterwards the desired strait ...
... months were afterwards passed at Santa Cruz , where the squadron was well supplied with wood and water ; and , on the 18th October , standing southward , they discovered Cape de las Virgines , and shortly afterwards the desired strait ...
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... months and twenty days after entering the Pacific , were painful in the extreme . Nineteen died of scurvy ; and the situa- tion of the remainder , reduced to chew the leather found about the ship , and to drink putrid water , was in the ...
... months and twenty days after entering the Pacific , were painful in the extreme . Nineteen died of scurvy ; and the situa- tion of the remainder , reduced to chew the leather found about the ship , and to drink putrid water , was in the ...
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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...