The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Around the World, Volume 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - Oceania |
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... Cape George , in honour of his Majesty . Between Point Charlotte and Prince of Wales's Foreland , where the country to the south - west began again to be hilly , is a deep inlet , which was called Royal Sound . It runs in west , quite ...
... Cape George , in honour of his Majesty . Between Point Charlotte and Prince of Wales's Foreland , where the country to the south - west began again to be hilly , is a deep inlet , which was called Royal Sound . It runs in west , quite ...
Page 163
... Cape George bore south 53 ° W. distant about seven leagues . A small island that lies off the pitch of the Cape , was the only land we could see to the south of it ; and we were farther confirmed that there was no more in that quarter ...
... Cape George bore south 53 ° W. distant about seven leagues . A small island that lies off the pitch of the Cape , was the only land we could see to the south of it ; and we were farther confirmed that there was no more in that quarter ...
Page 164
... Cape George , it would have been scarcely possible that he should have passed without seeing it . From these circumstances we are able to deter- mine , within a very few miles , the quantity of lati- tude that this land occupies ; which ...
... Cape George , it would have been scarcely possible that he should have passed without seeing it . From these circumstances we are able to deter- mine , within a very few miles , the quantity of lati- tude that this land occupies ; which ...
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Page 86 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 93 - And that we might go out with every help that could serve to make the result of our voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and scholar, Mr. "Webber was pitched upon, and engaged to embark with me, for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable imperfections of written accounts...
Page 33 - ... proceed Northward along the coast, as far as the latitude of 65°, or farther, if you are not obstructed by lands or ice; taking care not to lose any time in exploring rivers or inlets, or upon any other account, until you get into the before-mentioned latitude of 65°, where we could wish you to arrive in the month of June next.
Page 31 - By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord " High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. " Secret Instructions for Captain James Cook, Commander " of his Majesty's sloop the Resolution.
Page 35 - You are also, with the consent of the natives, to take possession, in the name of the King of Great Britain, of convenient situations in such countries as you may discover, that have not already been discovered or visited by any other European power, and to distribute among the inhabitants such things as will remain as traces and testimonies of your having been there...
Page 127 - An Account of Three Journeys from the Cape Town into the Southern Parts of Africa; undertaken for the Discovery of new Plants, towards the Improvement of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Keu..
Page 431 - ... them, unless it be a fulness at the point of the nose, which is very common. But, on the other hand, we met with hundreds of truly European faces, and many genuine Roman noses amongst them.
Page 161 - Land rises from a greater depth than twenty-four fathoms; "and as it does not grow in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterwards spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I am well warranted to say that some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upwards.
Page 435 - Friendly and other islands which we visited, the thefts so frequently committed by the natives, of what we had brought along with us, may be fairly traced to less culpable motives. They seemed to arise, solely from an intense curiosity or desire to possess something which they had not been accustomed to before, and belonging to a sort of people so different from themselves.
Page 257 - In general they were rather stout than slender, with black hair flowing in ringleti down the neck, and of an olive complexion. Their features were rather fuller than what we allow to perfect beauties, and much alike; but their eyes were of a deep black, and each countenance expressed a degree of complacency and modesty peculiar to the sex in every part of the world, but perhaps...