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 . like the latter, but of the fizeof the former. They burrow in the groundlike a fox, feed on feals and penguins, and arevery numerous on the coaft. The failors, inorder to be rid of fuch difagreeable compani-ons, fet fire to the grafs, which burnt fo ra-pidly, that the country was all in a blaze forfome days, and thefe animals were feen runningto feek fhclter from its fury. While they lay in this harbour the crewbreakfafted on portable foup and wild celery,thickened with oatmeal, which made a very nu-tritive mefs. The foil of the ifland was a lightclay under a black mould. The Commodorethinks this the fame place which, in CowleysVoyage, is called Pepys Ifland j but he tookpoffeffion of the harbour, and all the adjacentiflands, by the name of Falklands Islands,for George the Third, King of Great is to the honour of the Surgeon of the Ta-mar frigate, that during their flay there, hemade a fence of turf near the watering-place^round a tracT; of land, which he planted with vege-. ROUND THE WORLD. 19 C^ccretabks, for the ufe of thofe who may here-after touch at this port. On Sunday, January the 27th, they left PortEgmont, and the fame day faw a remarkablehead-land, which was named Cape Tamar ;foon after which they paffed a rock, which called the Edistone,
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