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 Endeavour: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 2W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... shore , and orders to bring back a load of wa- ter , if he could get it : as foon as these boats . were dispatched , we made a tack off to keep our ground . At noon it blew hard , with heavy rain and thick weather , and at one , as we ...
... shore , and orders to bring back a load of wa- ter , if he could get it : as foon as these boats . were dispatched , we made a tack off to keep our ground . At noon it blew hard , with heavy rain and thick weather , and at one , as we ...
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... shore , though at a good distance from the watering - place , to fend the cutter for another load . In the mean time I stood on and off with the fhip , and about four o'clock in the afternoon the cutter brought her freight of water on ...
... shore , though at a good distance from the watering - place , to fend the cutter for another load . In the mean time I stood on and off with the fhip , and about four o'clock in the afternoon the cutter brought her freight of water on ...
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... shore again for water ; it happened however that before we could reach our anchoring - ground , it again fell calm , and we were again kept off by the current : the boat in the mean time , as fhe rowed along the shore , caught as much ...
... shore again for water ; it happened however that before we could reach our anchoring - ground , it again fell calm , and we were again kept off by the current : the boat in the mean time , as fhe rowed along the shore , caught as much ...
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... shore to fish , and though before feven o'clock it blew fo hard that she was obliged to return , she brought fish enough on board to ferve all the people . In the night we had foul weather , with hard fqualls Thurfd . 21. and much rain ...
... shore to fish , and though before feven o'clock it blew fo hard that she was obliged to return , she brought fish enough on board to ferve all the people . In the night we had foul weather , with hard fqualls Thurfd . 21. and much rain ...
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... shore , in twenty - five fathom , with a bottom of coral and fand ; and it is probable that in fine fummer weather landing here may not only be practicable but eafy . We faw a great number of fea - birds hovering about it , at fomewhat ...
... shore , in twenty - five fathom , with a bottom of coral and fand ; and it is probable that in fine fummer weather landing here may not only be practicable but eafy . We faw a great number of fea - birds hovering about it , at fomewhat ...
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