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Page xxxvii
... armed party was sent inland from Matavai Bay , Tahiti , to explore the island , Gore went in command . After the voyage he was commissioned as Third Lieutenant of the Endeavour and made xxxvii HST с his third circumnavigation of the ...
... armed party was sent inland from Matavai Bay , Tahiti , to explore the island , Gore went in command . After the voyage he was commissioned as Third Lieutenant of the Endeavour and made xxxvii HST с his third circumnavigation of the ...
Page xlvi
... armed encounter with the Tahitian canoes in Matavai Bay and then in the assault upon the ship itself , but the narration has an ingenuousness that adds to its character . The Journal is a personal document lacking in neither humour nor ...
... armed encounter with the Tahitian canoes in Matavai Bay and then in the assault upon the ship itself , but the narration has an ingenuousness that adds to its character . The Journal is a personal document lacking in neither humour nor ...
Page 90
... armed themselves with long poles and javelins pointed with bones of fish . They did not begin an attack , but stood in a threaten- ing manner : our people , who were two and twenty in number , acted only on the defensive , and by ...
... armed themselves with long poles and javelins pointed with bones of fish . They did not begin an attack , but stood in a threaten- ing manner : our people , who were two and twenty in number , acted only on the defensive , and by ...
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