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Title: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.;
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773, comp. cn Byron, John, 1723-1786. cn Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795 Carteret, Philip, d. 1796 Cook, James, 1728-1779. cn Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820. 2n
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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pty water calks, and part of the flores. As foonas the tent for the lick was got ready for their reception, theywere font afhore to the number of eight or nine, and theboat was difpatched to haul the feine, in hopes of procuringfome fifh for their refrefhment; but fhe returned withoutfuccefs. In the mean time, I climbed one of the highefl hillsamong thofe that overlooked the harbour, which affordedby no means a comfortable profpecl: the low land near theriver is wholly over-run with mangroves, among which thefait-water flows every tide ; and the high land appeared tobe every where floney and barren. In the mean time Mr.Banks had alfo taken a walk up the country, and met withthe frames of feveral old Indian houfes, and places wherethey had drefled fhell-fifh; but they feemed not to have beenfrequented for fome months. Tupia, who had employedhimfelf in angling, and lived intirely upon what he caught,recovered in a furprifing degree; but Mr. Green Mill conti-nued to be extremely ill. The
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ROUND THE WORLD. s-j CHAP. VI. TranfaSiions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River: A Description of the adjacent Country, its Inhabitants, a?td Produclions. IN the morning of Monday the iSth, a ftage was made 1770*from the fhip to the more, which was fo bold that me , ^c __,floated at twenty feet diflance: two tents were alfo fet up,- Monday l8ione for the nek, and the other for ftores and provifions,which were landed in the courfe of the day. We alfo landedall the empty water cafks, and part of the ftores. As foonas the tent for the fick was got ready for their reception, theywere fent amore to the number of eight or nine, and theboat was difpatched to haul the feine, in hopes of procuringfome fifli for their refrefhment; but Ihe returned withoutfuccefs. In the mean time, I climbed one of the highefl hillsamong thofe that overlooked the harbour, which affordedby no means a comfortable profpect: the low land near theriver is wholly over-run with mangroves, among which thefal

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