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 . d only two flops •,they were blown like the German flute, but theperformer blew with his nofl:ril inftead of hismouth : fevcral others fung, only one tune, tothis inflrument. Some of the Indians brought the Englilliaxes to grind and repair, mofl: of which theyhad received from the Dolphin ; but a Frenchone occafioned much fpeculation, and it atlength appeared to have been left here by Bougainville. On the 24th Mr. Banks and Dr. Solandermade an excurflon into the country, which theyfound to be level and fertile for about twomiles along the fhore to the eafliward, afterwhich the hills reached quite to the waters edge,and farther on they ran out into the fea. Af-ter pafllng thefe hills, which continued aboutthree miles, they difcovered a large plain, a-bounding with good houfes, inhabited by peo-ple who feemed to be in affluence. A verywide river ifluing from a valley, added greatlyto the beauty of this place: they crofled thisriver, and perceived the country to be again ( iiHca ROUND THE WORLD. 219 barren, which determined them to return; butjuft as they had taken this reiblution, they wereoffered fome refrefhment by one of the natives,a man, as fome authors defcribe to be, mixedwith many nations, but different from them all,his Ikin being of a dead white,
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