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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... course has led them to encompass the world , whether in search of imaginary conti- nents , in quest of warlike adventure , or in the peace- ful pursuit of scientific knowledge . But the manner in which the history of circumnavigation is ...
... course has led them to encompass the world , whether in search of imaginary conti- nents , in quest of warlike adventure , or in the peace- ful pursuit of scientific knowledge . But the manner in which the history of circumnavigation is ...
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... course of maritime discovery . By this important document , the head of the Catholic Church , " with the plenitude of apostolic power , by the authority of * History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus , by Wash- ington ...
... course of maritime discovery . By this important document , the head of the Catholic Church , " with the plenitude of apostolic power , by the authority of * History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus , by Wash- ington ...
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... course , and report what they had observed to the commander . Two days had already passed , and the captain - general was not without fear that his consorts must have been cast away in the tempest ; while smoke being observed on shore ...
... course , and report what they had observed to the commander . Two days had already passed , and the captain - general was not without fear that his consorts must have been cast away in the tempest ; while smoke being observed on shore ...
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... course , in order to reach a milder climate ( the crews having already suffered se- verely from extreme cold ) , as well as to escape the storms usually encountered about the western opening of the strait . On the 24th January , 1521 ...
... course , in order to reach a milder climate ( the crews having already suffered se- verely from extreme cold ) , as well as to escape the storms usually encountered about the western opening of the strait . On the 24th January , 1521 ...
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... course , his only answer was , that their duty was to follow him , not to ask questions . In personal appearance , he was rather mean ; his stature was short , and he was lame from a wound which he had received in battle with the Moors ...
... course , his only answer was , that their duty was to follow him , not to ask questions . In personal appearance , he was rather mean ; his stature was short , and he was lame from a wound which he had received in battle with the Moors ...
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Adventure afterward anchored Anson appeared Archipelago arms arrived boats Bougainville Burney called canoes Cape Horn Captain Captain Cook Carteret chief Chron circumnavigation coast commander continued Cook Cook's course crew descried discovered discovery Dutch east Easter Island Endeavour English expedition feet fire gave harbour Hawkesworth's Coll Hist hogs Holland honour Hugh Palliser inhabitants Isles Juan king land latitude leagues length longitude Magellan Maire Mendana Moluccas morning musket narrative natives navigator nearly observed ocean Otaheite Pacific passage passed Pigafetta Port present proceeded Quiros reached received round savages says Schouten seamen seemed seen set sail ship shore sight small islands Society Islands soon South Pole South Sea southern Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron stood Straits Straits of Magellan Tierra del Fuego tion Tonga Van Diemen's Land vessels visited voyage Wallis westward winds wood Zealand
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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...