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Page 118
The prevailing interest in the Pacific and in Africa gave a strong regional bias to the collections of the last quarter of the eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth centuries ; Cook is the central figure of the Pacific collecA ...
The prevailing interest in the Pacific and in Africa gave a strong regional bias to the collections of the last quarter of the eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth centuries ; Cook is the central figure of the Pacific collecA ...
Page 127
The achievements of Cook naturally intensified the public interest in the history of exploration in the Pacific Ocean . The final compilation on this subject , so far as the period under review is concerned , was Captain James Burncy's ...
The achievements of Cook naturally intensified the public interest in the history of exploration in the Pacific Ocean . The final compilation on this subject , so far as the period under review is concerned , was Captain James Burncy's ...
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Europe , the American mainland , Asia and Africa are scantily treated ; and more than half the volume is filled by Pacific voyages , chiefly of recent date . These include abridgements of the usual circumnavigations ; for the South ...
Europe , the American mainland , Asia and Africa are scantily treated ; and more than half the volume is filled by Pacific voyages , chiefly of recent date . These include abridgements of the usual circumnavigations ; for the South ...
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| Title | Works, Volume 93 |
| Author | Hakluyt Society |
| Publisher | Kraus Reprint, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2009 |
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