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... Hope to New Zealand and Tahiti , then to work up the North American coast in the hope of finding a passage round the top of that continent . Towards the end of January 1778 he discovered the Hawaiian group and thence made northwards ...
... Hope to New Zealand and Tahiti , then to work up the North American coast in the hope of finding a passage round the top of that continent . Towards the end of January 1778 he discovered the Hawaiian group and thence made northwards ...
Page 55
... Hope , and all the fourteen aboard her were in high spirits when a seaman scrambled up the flagstaff and reversed the Union Jack . His action aroused three spontaneous cheers from the crew , and the cutter cleared the bank on the long ...
... Hope , and all the fourteen aboard her were in high spirits when a seaman scrambled up the flagstaff and reversed the Union Jack . His action aroused three spontaneous cheers from the crew , and the cutter cleared the bank on the long ...
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... Hope magnificent views lay before them . As far as the eye could see the plains were covered with kangaroo grass , waving in the breeze like a thousand cornfields . Mobs of kangaroos roamed the pastures . The wheels of the bullock drays ...
... Hope magnificent views lay before them . As far as the eye could see the plains were covered with kangaroo grass , waving in the breeze like a thousand cornfields . Mobs of kangaroos roamed the pastures . The wheels of the bullock drays ...
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The Coast of Doom I I | 11 |
The First British Landing | 21 |
Columbus of the South | 26 |
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