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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... paffed by fome land . At this time the wind blew hard from the northward , which made a great fea , but we had notwithstanding long roll- ing billows from the fouthward , so that what- ever land was in that quarter , could be only fmall ...
... paffed by fome land . At this time the wind blew hard from the northward , which made a great fea , but we had notwithstanding long roll- ing billows from the fouthward , so that what- ever land was in that quarter , could be only fmall ...
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... paffed Hanway's Point , we faw a fmall village , which ftands up- on the beach , and is furrounded by cocoa - nut trees . It is fituated in a bay between Hanway's Point and another , to which I gave the name of HOWE'S POINT . The ...
... paffed Hanway's Point , we faw a fmall village , which ftands up- on the beach , and is furrounded by cocoa - nut trees . It is fituated in a bay between Hanway's Point and another , to which I gave the name of HOWE'S POINT . The ...
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... paffed by , holding fomething in their hands which looked like a wifp of green grafs , with which they feemed to ... paffing , and performed the fame kind of circular dance . After a little time they launched several canoes , and made ...
... paffed by , holding fomething in their hands which looked like a wifp of green grafs , with which they feemed to ... paffing , and performed the fame kind of circular dance . After a little time they launched several canoes , and made ...
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... paffed thefe islands , we continued our courfe W. by N. with a fine eastern breeze , and fmooth water .. On the 16th in the morn Wednef , 16 . ing , we found the variation , by a medium of feveral azimuths , to be 6o 30 ' E. , our ...
... paffed thefe islands , we continued our courfe W. by N. with a fine eastern breeze , and fmooth water .. On the 16th in the morn Wednef , 16 . ing , we found the variation , by a medium of feveral azimuths , to be 6o 30 ' E. , our ...
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... paffed between these islands and the main , and found the paffage good , the current fetting to the weftward . Dampier has placed his Bay and Savannah four leagues N. W. from the castermost island , and there I fought it , as in- K 2 ...
... paffed between these islands and the main , and found the paffage good , the current fetting to the weftward . Dampier has placed his Bay and Savannah four leagues N. W. from the castermost island , and there I fought it , as in- K 2 ...
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