An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of CookHarper & brothers, 1837 - 366 Seiten |
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And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook ACCOUNT. ! . 4 an Presented by Mrs Henry R. Hoyt to the.
And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook ACCOUNT. ! . 4 an Presented by Mrs Henry R. Hoyt to the.
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And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook ACCOUNT.
And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook ACCOUNT.
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... Cook ACCOUNT. PREFACE . THE object of the present work is to give a com- prehensive history of the various circumnavigations of the globe , and to describe at the same time the progress of discovery in Polynesia . The innumerable ...
... Cook ACCOUNT. PREFACE . THE object of the present work is to give a com- prehensive history of the various circumnavigations of the globe , and to describe at the same time the progress of discovery in Polynesia . The innumerable ...
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... Cook ACCOUNT. completed the discovery of the Low or Coral Ar- chipelago ; and the researches of Dillon and of D'Urville have supplied much valuable information on the state and productions of the New Hebrides . In preparing this volume ...
... Cook ACCOUNT. completed the discovery of the Low or Coral Ar- chipelago ; and the researches of Dillon and of D'Urville have supplied much valuable information on the state and productions of the New Hebrides . In preparing this volume ...
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... Cook ACCOUNT. CHAPTER VI . CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS OF BYRON , WALLIS , AND CARTERET- 1764-1769 . Voyage of Byron ( 1764 ... COOK PREVIOUS TO HIS FIRST VOYAGE - 1728–1768 . Birth and Parentage of Cook . - His Education . - His Indentures with a ...
... Cook ACCOUNT. CHAPTER VI . CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS OF BYRON , WALLIS , AND CARTERET- 1764-1769 . Voyage of Byron ( 1764 ... COOK PREVIOUS TO HIS FIRST VOYAGE - 1728–1768 . Birth and Parentage of Cook . - His Education . - His Indentures with a ...
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Seite 64 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Seite 140 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell...
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Seite 349 - 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 242 - 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 1 - English Synonymes. With copious Illustrations and Explanations, drawn from the best Writers.
Seite 292 - 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 265 - Ocean, with a good ship expressly sent out on discoveries, a healthy crew, and not in want either of stores or of provisions, would have been betraying not only a want of perseverance, but of judgment, in supposing the South Pacific Ocean to have been so well explored that nothing remained to be done in it.
Seite 119 - 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 22 - ... magnitude, and separated by two vast oceans from all the earth hitherto known by civilized man ! And how would his magnanimous spirit have been consoled, amidst the afflictions of age and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered ; and the nations, and tongues, and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere...