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 . other; the reft of hisface was painted in ftreaks of various colours.*He had the Ikin of a beail:, with the hair in-wards, thrown over his fhoulders. The Com-modore and the Indian having complimentedeach other, in language equally unintelligibleto either, they walked together towards themain body of the Indians, few of whom werefhorter than the htight abovcmentioned, andthe women were large in proportion. Mr. By-ron made figns for them to fit on the ground,which they did, chanting in a moft ferious andmelancholy tone. The eyes of any one facewere never painted with the fame colours ; fomebeing white and red, iome black and red, andfome black and white: their teeth were whiteand even -, they were all dreOed much alike;but that fome of them wore a lort of boots,having a fpur of peaked wood faftened to eachheel. The Commodore having prevailed on fome,who were ftill galloping about, to alight and litdown with the reft, he diftributed fome whiteand yellow beads among them, which they ve-ry. // ROUND THE WORLD. ii ry gladly accepted. He then took a piece ofribband, and giving the end of it into the handsof the firft Indian, he continued it to the next,and fo on as they fat, to the end of the then cut it with a pair of fcifiars betweenevery two of them -, and tied e
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