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Page xxxv
... later com- manded his ship in the Channel . It may well be that the interest Boscawen had taken in him on the American Station had some- thing to do with Wallis's appointment to the Dolphin , for Boscawen was then at the Admiralty ...
... later com- manded his ship in the Channel . It may well be that the interest Boscawen had taken in him on the American Station had some- thing to do with Wallis's appointment to the Dolphin , for Boscawen was then at the Admiralty ...
Page xxxviii
... later master of the Endeavour and died during that voyage , and Richard Pickersgill , a Yorkshire lad of 18 years , a clever draughtsman , whose charts of the Magellan Straits , drawn on this voyage , have survived.1 Pickersgill later ...
... later master of the Endeavour and died during that voyage , and Richard Pickersgill , a Yorkshire lad of 18 years , a clever draughtsman , whose charts of the Magellan Straits , drawn on this voyage , have survived.1 Pickersgill later ...
Page 273
... later he too was out of the Straits , and two years later still , a year after Wallis had got home , he safely anchored again in the Thames . His voyage is an epic of English seamanship that deserves a fuller recognition . In 1771 ...
... later he too was out of the Straits , and two years later still , a year after Wallis had got home , he safely anchored again in the Thames . His voyage is an epic of English seamanship that deserves a fuller recognition . In 1771 ...
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