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 1W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... hands upon deck , and informed them , that I was not , as they imagined , Monday 22 . bound immediately to the Eaft Indies , but upon certain discoveries , which it was thought might be of great importance to our country , in confidera ...
... hands upon deck , and informed them , that I was not , as they imagined , Monday 22 . bound immediately to the Eaft Indies , but upon certain discoveries , which it was thought might be of great importance to our country , in confidera ...
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... hands ; they are very shy , and very swift . After I returned to my boat , I went farther up the har- bour , and landed upon an island that was covered with feals , of which we killed above fifty , and among them many that were larger ...
... hands ; they are very shy , and very swift . After I returned to my boat , I went farther up the har- bour , and landed upon an island that was covered with feals , of which we killed above fifty , and among them many that were larger ...
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... hands continually by the sheet anchor , as there was too much reafon to fear that our cables would . part , which however did not happen . In the mean time , foine of our people that were on fhore with the carpenters , who were ...
... hands continually by the sheet anchor , as there was too much reafon to fear that our cables would . part , which however did not happen . In the mean time , foine of our people that were on fhore with the carpenters , who were ...
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... hands on board in fetting up the rig- ging . It grew more moderate however about noon , and I then fent a boat to procure more water . The two men who first came up to the well found there a large tyger lying upon the ground ; hav ing ...
... hands on board in fetting up the rig- ging . It grew more moderate however about noon , and I then fent a boat to procure more water . The two men who first came up to the well found there a large tyger lying upon the ground ; hav ing ...
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... hands of one of them , I made the per- fon that fat next take hold of it , and fo on as far as it would reach : all this while they fat very quietly , nor did any of those that held the riband attempt to pull it from the reft , though I ...
... hands of one of them , I made the per- fon that fat next take hold of it , and fo on as far as it would reach : all this while they fat very quietly , nor did any of those that held the riband attempt to pull it from the reft , though I ...
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