An historical account of all the voyages round the world : performed by English navigators ; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty ; the whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers ; Drake, undertaken in 1577-80 ; Cavendish, 1586-88 ; Cowley, 1683-86 ; Dampier, 1689-96 ; Cooke, 1708-11 ; Rogers, 1708-11 ; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22 ; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44 ; Byron, 1764-66 ; Wallis, 1766-68 ; Carteret, 1766-69 ; and Cook, 1768-71 ; together with that of Sydney Parkinson ..and the voyage of MonsBougainville ..to which is added, an append
An historical account of all the voyages round the world : performed by English navigators ; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty ; the whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers ; Drake, undertaken in 1577-80 ; Cavendish, 1586-88 ; Cowley, 1683-86 ; Dampier, 1689-96 ; Cooke, 1708-11 ; Rogers, 1708-11 ; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22 ; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44 ; Byron, 1764-66 ; Wallis, 1766-68 ; Carteret, 1766-69 ; and Cook, 1768-71 ; together with that of Sydney Parkinson ..and the voyage of MonsBougainville ..to which is added, an appendix ; containing the journal of a voyage to the North pole, by the HonCommodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge . hem in a ceremonious manner at thefeet of the feamen : they then painted themfelvesred with the berries of a tree, and ftained theirgarments yellow with the bark of another. Bythe aOiftance of the Indians, the moft difficultparrs of the mountain were climbed ; and theyagain refrefhed themfelves on its fummit, when:they faw other mountains fo much above them,that they feemed as in a valley. Towards the fea the profpeft was inexprefTr-bly beautiful, the fides of the hills being co-vered with trees, and the vallies with grafs;while the whole country v/as interfperfed withvillages. They faw but few houfes on themountains above them, but as fmoke was ob-ferved in many places, it was conjed:ured, thatthe higheft parts were inhabited. Many fpringsguihed from the fides of the mountains, all ofwhich were covered with wood on the fides,and with fern on the fummits. The foil evenon the high lands was rich, and the fugar-canegrew v;ithout cultivation j as did likewife ginger and turmerick. Having. ? //f. s //<r/i (/ f ^/(//i(?//<• /^f////(/ /rfiic (/ (a/i. /hf/Z/.i ROUND TFIE WORLD, ^g Having a third time refrefhcd themfelves,they defcended towards the fhip, occafionallydeviating from the dired: way, tempted, by thepleafant fituation of feveral houfes, the inhabi-tants of w
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