The Discovery of AustraliaDean & son, limited, 1902 - 184 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abrolhos Adventure afterwards ALBERT F Amsterdam anchor appears Arosca Atlas Batavia boats boomerang British Museum called CALVERT canoes Cape Captain Cook century chart chief coast command Cook's course crew Dampier discovered Discovery of Australia Dutch Duyfken East Indies Endeavour Eredia expedition Exploration of Australia Ferdinand Magellan fish French geographical globe gold Gonneville Gonneville's Guinea Gulf of Carpentaria hemisphere HENRICUS HONDIUS Holland honour interesting island JAMES COOK Java JEAN ROTZ journal king known latitude leagues letter longitude Luça Magellan miles Moluccas natives navigator North North-west Nova ocean Otaheite POPE ALEXANDER VI Portugal Portuguese possession present Prince Quiros reached rivers round sailors savages says second voyage set sail ship shore Sir Joseph Banks South Land Southern Continent Southward Spaniards Spanish spices Straits Tasman Terra Australis Torres trees Van Diemen's Land vessels volume West Western Australia wind writer Zealand
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עמוד 4 - encircles the ultimate bounds of the inhabited earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one has been able to verify anything concerning it, on account of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great obscurity, its profound depth, and frequent tempests ; through fear of its mighty fishes and its haughty winds ; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep waters ; or, if any have done so, they have merely kept along its...
עמוד 111 - ... hardships, but even exempt from the want of ordinary relaxation. During the long and tedious voyages in which he was engaged, his eagerness and activity were never in the least abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment ; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever...
עמוד 171 - America ; but that you would treat the said Captain Cook and his people with all civility and kindness, affording them, as common friends to mankind, all the assistance in your power, which they may happen to stand in need of.
עמוד 11 - ... spite of twelve years of costly failure and disheartening ridicule. Had that failure and that ridicule produced on Prince Henry the effect which they ordinarily produce on other men, it is impossible to say what delays would have occurred before these mighty events would have been...
עמוד 111 - The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa,* though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc. as the Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.
עמוד 118 - The same penalty will be inflicted on every person who is found to embezzle, trade, or offer to trade, with any part of the ship's stores of what nature soever.
עמוד 111 - ... nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close. So that from their infancy, being thus annoyed with these insects, they do never open their eyes as other people, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at somewhat over them.
עמוד 171 - Gentlemen, A Ship having been fitted out from England before the commencement of this War, to make Discoveries, of new Countries, in Unknown Seas, under the Conduct of that most celebrated Navigator and Discoverer, Captain Cook; an Undertaking truly laudable in itself, as the Increase of Geographical Knowledge facilitates the Communication between distant Nations, in the Exchange of useful Products and Manufactures, and the Extension of Arts, whereby the common Enjoyments of human Life are multiply'd...
עמוד 111 - ... of their abode. There the old people that are not able to stir abroad by reason of their age, and the tender infants, wait their return ; and what Providence has bestowed on them they presently broil on the coals, and eat it in common.
עמוד 171 - To all Captains and Commanders of armed Ships acting by Commission from the Congress of the United States of America, now in War with Great Britain. Gentlemen, A Ship having been fitted out from England before the commencement of this War, to make Discoveries, of new Countries, in Unknown Seas, under the Conduct of that most celebrated Navigator and Discoverer, Captain Cook; an Undertaking truly laudable...