Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Comprehending an Account of the Wreck of the Ship "Governor Ready" in Torres Straits; a Description of the British Settlements on the Coasts of New Holland, More Particularly Raffles Bay, Melville Island, Swan River, and King George's Sound; Also to Manners and Customs of the Aboriginal Tribes ... |
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... At midnight we had passed Bird Islet , as the latitude was ascertained to be 22 ° .9 ' south , by the meridian altitudes of several stars taken , in the order of their 8 DIANA'S BANK . culmination between a little before ten 7.
... At midnight we had passed Bird Islet , as the latitude was ascertained to be 22 ° .9 ' south , by the meridian altitudes of several stars taken , in the order of their 8 DIANA'S BANK . culmination between a little before ten 7.
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... latitude 10 ° 12 ′ , and in longitude 146 ° 20 ′ east , we shortened sail , expecting to be up with these reefs by ... latitude 10 ° 2 ′ , and , by lunar observations , brought forward by chronometer , in longitude 145 ° 49 ' ; the north ...
... latitude 10 ° 12 ′ , and in longitude 146 ° 20 ′ east , we shortened sail , expecting to be up with these reefs by ... latitude 10 ° 2 ′ , and , by lunar observations , brought forward by chronometer , in longitude 145 ° 49 ' ; the north ...
Page 10
... latitude was an object of the utmost importance . Fortunately , having fine weather and a cloudless sky , our latitude could be , and was , ascertained almost every half hour , by the meridian altitude of a star , either north or south ...
... latitude was an object of the utmost importance . Fortunately , having fine weather and a cloudless sky , our latitude could be , and was , ascertained almost every half hour , by the meridian altitude of a star , either north or south ...
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... latitude by Rastaban and Vega , agreeing with that deduced previously from the meridian altitude of Jupiter , the Moon , and sixteen Stars , was 9 ° 51 ′ south , and our longitude by lunars , brought forward by chro- nometer , was 134 ...
... latitude by Rastaban and Vega , agreeing with that deduced previously from the meridian altitude of Jupiter , the Moon , and sixteen Stars , was 9 ° 51 ′ south , and our longitude by lunars , brought forward by chro- nometer , was 134 ...
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... the horizon being undefined , we could not ascertain our latitude from the altitude of any of the stars , and although the attempt was made , the result could not be depended on . 24 SEVERAL UNKNOWN ISLANDS IN VIEW . deceitful by a.
... the horizon being undefined , we could not ascertain our latitude from the altitude of any of the stars , and although the attempt was made , the result could not be depended on . 24 SEVERAL UNKNOWN ISLANDS IN VIEW . deceitful by a.
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Aborigines accompanied Amity appeared APPENDIX arrived ascertain bank Batavia beach boat breeze brig camp canoe Cape Captain Barker Captain Laws Captain Stirling Captain Young chronometer circumstance colony Commandant considerable Coupang course crew Davis daylight directed discovered disease distance eastward endeavoured exceedingly excursion favourable fired formed Governor Phillips Governor Ready Holland informed Isle kangaroo King George's Sound latitude Lieutenant long-boat longitude Malays Melville Island ment meridian altitude Miago miles Mimaloo Mokǎrē morning Murray's Island named natives night noon north coast northward observed obtained party passage passed perceived Port Essington Port Jackson present prisoners proas proceeded prudent Raffles Bay received reef round sail sailors settlement settlers ship shore short skiff soon South Wales southward spears Straits Success Swan River Sydney taken Timor tion took trees trepang vessel voyage walked weather Wednesday Island Wellington wind wood
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Page 258 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now...
Page 36 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 258 - Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung , Silence was...
Page 312 - One had the form of a parrot's head, with a ruff round the neck, and was not ill done. Their canoes are about fifty feet in length, and appear to have been hollowed out of a single tree ; but the pieces which form the gunwales are planks sewed on with the fibres of the cocoa nut, and secured with pegs. These vessels are low, forward, but rise abaft; and, being narrow, are fitted with an outrigger on each side, to keep them steady. A raft, of. greater breadth than the canoe, extends over about half...
Page 123 - ... places, on which a few years ago, settlements, by direction of our government, were formed, but which have since been abandoned, as Dr. Wilson argues, and shews, from very insufficient and mistaken causes. The principal object in forming a settlement on the coast in question, as the author states, was to establish a commercial intercourse with the natives of various islands in the Indian Archipelago, and which, it was imagined, might be brought about through the means of the Malays, who annually...