“A” Voyage to Terra Australis; Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosectuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and Subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner: With an Account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise, Arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and Imprisonment of the Commander During Six Years and a Half in that Island ; in Two Volumes, with an Atlas, Volume 2Bulmer, 1814 |
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a-head afterwards amongst anchorage appeared bank bearings boat bore breakers breeze Broad Sound Caen calyx Cape captain Cook captain-general chart coast Coepang compass coral Cumberland Dicotyledones distance east entrance fathoms five miles Flinders four miles French fresh genera genus Groote Eylandt Gulph of Carpentaria half hauled high water hills Isle islet keeper Keppel Bay Lady Nelson latitude leagues letter lieutenant Linn longitude mangroves mast head Mauritius meridian morning Mount Larcom natives nearly noon north-east north-west northward o'clock observed officers ovarium passage passed Porpoise Port Jackson Port Louis principal parallel prisoners probably reef rocks round sail sand sandy Sandy Cape Saturday schooner seemed seen ship ship's head shoal shore south-east south-west southward species stamina steered Strait tacked taken Terra Australis theodolite three miles tide trees tropic Tuesday turtle Vacouas variation vessel voyage weather Wednes westward wind wood