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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... called Davis's Land in all our charts . We continued our fearch till Wednesday the 17th of June , when , in latitude 28 S. , longi- tude 112 ° W. , we faw many fea - birds , which flew in flocks , and fome rock - weed , which made me ...
... called Davis's Land in all our charts . We continued our fearch till Wednesday the 17th of June , when , in latitude 28 S. , longi- tude 112 ° W. , we faw many fea - birds , which flew in flocks , and fome rock - weed , which made me ...
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... called it PIT- CAIRN'S ISLAND . While we were in the neighbourhood of this ifland , the weather was extremely tempeftuous , with long rolling billows from the fouthward , larger and higher than any I had feen before . The winds were ...
... called it PIT- CAIRN'S ISLAND . While we were in the neighbourhood of this ifland , the weather was extremely tempeftuous , with long rolling billows from the fouthward , larger and higher than any I had feen before . The winds were ...
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... called it the BISHOP OF OSNA BURGH'S ISLAND , in honour of his Ma- Island . jesty's fecond fon * . Ofnaburgla On the 12th , we fell in with two moré fmall Sunday 1 flands , which were covered with green trees , but appeared to be ...
... called it the BISHOP OF OSNA BURGH'S ISLAND , in honour of his Ma- Island . jesty's fecond fon * . Ofnaburgla On the 12th , we fell in with two moré fmall Sunday 1 flands , which were covered with green trees , but appeared to be ...
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... called them the DUKE OF GLOU- CESTER'S ISLANDS ; the variation here is five degrees east . These islands are probably the land seen by Quiros , as the fituation is nearly the fame ; but if not , the land he faw could not be more ...
... called them the DUKE OF GLOU- CESTER'S ISLANDS ; the variation here is five degrees east . These islands are probably the land seen by Quiros , as the fituation is nearly the fame ; but if not , the land he faw could not be more ...
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... called the Island of Danger ; none of these islands however could we fee . At this time it blew fo hard that , al- though we went before the wind , we were obliged to reef our top - fails , and the weather was ftill very thick and rainy ...
... called the Island of Danger ; none of these islands however could we fee . At this time it blew fo hard that , al- though we went before the wind , we were obliged to reef our top - fails , and the weather was ftill very thick and rainy ...
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