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... London . We Saild past this Island at too Great a Distance to give any Description of it . The Swallow and Store Ships both in Company and both dull Sailors . We still serve Portable Soup amongst the Pease and Bargow . 20th . In Lattd ...
... London . We Saild past this Island at too Great a Distance to give any Description of it . The Swallow and Store Ships both in Company and both dull Sailors . We still serve Portable Soup amongst the Pease and Bargow . 20th . In Lattd ...
Page 236
... London or between twenty and twenty four west from London , After Crossing the Equator you Generally have the true S.E. trade , which will Carry you to the tropick of Capricorn , then the Wind begins to hall to the Northward , and ...
... London or between twenty and twenty four west from London , After Crossing the Equator you Generally have the true S.E. trade , which will Carry you to the tropick of Capricorn , then the Wind begins to hall to the Northward , and ...
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... London 174 ° : 46 ′ West . 15th August 1767. We hade a fresh Gale and cloudy weather with the Wind from S.E. to E.S.E. we soon run past Boscawins Island and found it full of Cocoa nut trees and Several oyther trees that I could not know ...
... London 174 ° : 46 ′ West . 15th August 1767. We hade a fresh Gale and cloudy weather with the Wind from S.E. to E.S.E. we soon run past Boscawins Island and found it full of Cocoa nut trees and Several oyther trees that I could not know ...
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