. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. ROUNt) THE VVORLD.' 14! lend a boat off, which returned with a great many birds, feals, ^c. Another account pubHflied by Purchas, in his nackluytiis pojlhumus*, is thus cxprcfled. The 7th of September, 1578, Drake was over- taken by a tempefl, which drove him from the weft entrance of the Straits of Magellan, more than two hundred l
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. ROUNt) THE VVORLD.' 14! lend a boat off, which returned with a great many birds, feals, ^c. Another account pubHflied by Purchas, in his nackluytiis pojlhumus*, is thus cxprcfled. The 7th of September, 1578, Drake was over- taken by a tempefl, which drove him from the weft entrance of the Straits of Magellan, more than two hundred leagues in longitude, and car- ried him a degree to the fouth of the ftraits. Thence he ran to the 57th degree of fouth lati* tude, where he met with a number of iflands, among which he anchored, and which furnilhed him with very good water, and excellent herbs. He difcovered another bay, where he found naked inhabitants, who ufed canoes, and held communications from one iHand to another; he made feveral exchanges with them. At length, quitting this bay,and ftanding to the northward, he, on the 3d of Occobcr-j-, met with three iilands, of which one was remarkable for t'le prodigious quantity of birds he tound there, nnd which furpafs, fays the narrator, whatever can be conceived, Stc. "^ IIackln\ius pnj^himus, or Purchas hib Pilgrims, &c. Lon- tinn, 1625, in fol. \'ol. I, page 50, of the Circum-naviga- '.K'ni ui" the Globe. I This (late is evicicntly falfe: it i: probable that it is a {.'lult in the printing of the origm^il; and that it is neceflary" ts the 30th, inilcad of the 3d. The "If f'H m â ^lm I,.... Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788; Milet de Mureau, Louis-Marie-Antoine Destouff, baron de
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