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Page xi
... navigation ( 1766-8 ) , which resulted in the discovery of Tahiti . Dr Edward Lynam , then Honorary Secretary ( now President ) of the Hakluyt Society , to whom I spoke of Robertson's Journal , suggested that I should edit it for ...
... navigation ( 1766-8 ) , which resulted in the discovery of Tahiti . Dr Edward Lynam , then Honorary Secretary ( now President ) of the Hakluyt Society , to whom I spoke of Robertson's Journal , suggested that I should edit it for ...
Page xx
... Navigation thereof , than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown , and to attain a perfect knowledge of the distant Parts of the British Empire , which though formerly discovered by His Majesty's subjects have been as yet but ...
... Navigation thereof , than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown , and to attain a perfect knowledge of the distant Parts of the British Empire , which though formerly discovered by His Majesty's subjects have been as yet but ...
Page xxix
... navigation as she had been Byron's in the two preceding years , was classed as a sixth - rate . She was a frigate , pierced for 24 guns on the gun- or upper - deck , and carrying eight others on her exceptionally long quarter - deck ...
... navigation as she had been Byron's in the two preceding years , was classed as a sixth - rate . She was a frigate , pierced for 24 guns on the gun- or upper - deck , and carrying eight others on her exceptionally long quarter - deck ...
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