In spring Matotschkin Sound and part of the east coast of the North Island were surveyed by means of sledge journeys, after which an attempt was made during summer to circumnavigate the North Island, but without success.
From this Eudoxus drew the conclusion, that it was possible to circumnavigate Libya; he therefore returned home, and having collected together the whole of his substance, set out on his travels.
After the establishment of peace between England and France, two expeditions had been fitted out to circumnavigate the globe, one under Lord Byron, and the other under Captains Carteret and Wallis.
Thence he might make his way by land to Jerusalem, taking ship at Joppa, and traverse the Mediterranean to Spain, or sail round the whole coast of Africa, and thus circumnavigate the globe.
Build a steam yacht, and circumnavigatethe island.
We now come to another great English navigator, Matthew Flinders, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia; to him belongs the honour of having given to this great island continent the name it now bears.
This we had to circumnavigate in order to descend.
In 1785 the Count de La Pérouse and his subordinate, Captain de Langle, were sent by King Louis XVI of France on a voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
He thereupon set out to circumnavigate it and sailed from Cape Cruz northward into the Gulf of Guacanabo.
Ovando then decided to undertake the exploit at his own charge, and, according to Las Casas, commissioned Sebastian de Ocampo to explore the coasts of the country and, if he found it to be an island, to circumnavigate it.
But his companions could not be persuaded to approve his scheme of going on to circumnavigate the globe.
The enterprise of Englishmen led them to circumnavigate the globe, to attempt colonization, to extend commerce, and to inaugurate trade relations with India.
He rested the remainder of the afternoon, wishing to start fresh in the morning, having determined to follow the line of the shore eastwards, and so gradually to circumnavigate the Lake.
If such favouring breezes would continue, he could circumnavigate the waters in a comparatively short time, and might return to Aurora, so far, at least, successful.
But there was another development of the science of the Crystal Cities which interested them far more than this--for after all they could not only see the Worlds of Space for themselves, but circumnavigate them if they chose.
A yacht now, with every luxury of life, can circumnavigate the globe.
So he determined to explore, and finally, to circumnavigate Africa, and give to Portugal whatever of power or wealth the ocean or the dark continent might hide.
His instructions particularly required him to circumnavigate the earth in the highest practicable southern latitude in search of the unknown continent still supposed to be there.
This was to attempt to circumnavigate the island, which he accomplished in two tiny boats with 15 soldiers.
That island of Jayalolo is so large that it takes four months to circumnavigate it in a prau.
The Itaquiri rises near the great Parana in Brazil, and allowing only for a short portage, canoes actually circumnavigate the country included between the Parana and the Paraguay.
Flinders had thus been the first commander to circumnavigate Australia and to prove that it was an undivided area, and that there were no more surprises or mysteries in its outline.
An airplane traveling at this rate would circumnavigate the earth in a little over five days and would reach the moon in seven weeks.
With this velocity, one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second, we circumnavigate our globe in one-seventh of a second, reach the moon in one and a fourth seconds and the sun in eight minutes.
And it was a pretty good tale they had to tell, for they had been the first white men to circumnavigate the globe.
With our own hands we're going to circumnavigate the globe.
If his steamer maintained sixteen knots, he would circumnavigate the globe in just about forty days.
This was a wide circumnavigation of the whole of New Holland; but he did not sight Australia, and as, of course, he did not go near Bass Strait, he did not circumnavigate the continent proper.
Flinders and Bass circumnavigate Tasmania in the Norfolk.
But undaunted he then fitted out another expedition, consisting of two smaller vessels, and once again sailed to the South to circumnavigate Africa.
Several other attempts to circumnavigate Africa were made prior to Herodotus's writings.
They poled towards Serendib, intending to circumnavigate that island.
He had quite hoped to get down to the Peninsula, and to circumnavigate it, and even shoot the cataract of the dam below, and go under the arch of the bridge, and away yet farther.
That's what Drake's ship was called, and he was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.
