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Page 57
... further in to the Bay where we Anchord in Eight fatham water , soft Mudy Ground with some Shells . This Day Capt . Wallis and Capt . Cartret went to the Etward to sound a Bay calld Corders3 Bay but found it very Indiferent Ground . As ...
... further in to the Bay where we Anchord in Eight fatham water , soft Mudy Ground with some Shells . This Day Capt . Wallis and Capt . Cartret went to the Etward to sound a Bay calld Corders3 Bay but found it very Indiferent Ground . As ...
Page 260
... further forward through the hawse - holes on each side of the stem , and led up , outside the ship , to the anchors on to the forecastle deck . When heaving in the anchor the proper handling and coiling of the anchor cable was the most ...
... further forward through the hawse - holes on each side of the stem , and led up , outside the ship , to the anchors on to the forecastle deck . When heaving in the anchor the proper handling and coiling of the anchor cable was the most ...
Page 268
... further supplies . With these he immediately sailed again for the Falklands , arriving on 5 February 1765 , a week ahead S of Byron . The two commanders were quite unaware of each other's presence , though Byron did know of the ...
... further supplies . With these he immediately sailed again for the Falklands , arriving on 5 February 1765 , a week ahead S of Byron . The two commanders were quite unaware of each other's presence , though Byron did know of the ...
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