Thence they proceeded across the Pacific and through the Asiatic archipelago, visiting among others the Fiji and the Pelew Islands, coasting New Guinea, and circumnavigating Borneo.
The day which is lost in circumnavigating the globe to the westward, by making each day a little more than twenty-four hours long.
The twenty-four hours, or day and night, gained by circumnavigating the globe to the eastward.
The ships Resolution and Discovery, the circumnavigating ships which sailed under Cook and Clerke, returned, but without either of their original commanders.
Columbus had conceived the immense idea of passing through the strait, and returning by Asia and the Cape of Good Hope, thuscircumnavigating the globe and proving its spherical form.
A belief in such discovery was a natural corollary of the object which Prince Henry had had in view,—by circumnavigating Africa to find a way to the countries of which Marco Polo had given golden accounts.
Northward of those islands was open sea between Asia and Europe, which might afford direct passage between East and West without circumnavigating the globe.
If the Portuguese mariners of the generation before Columbus had acquiesced in Ptolemy's views as final, they surely would not have devoted their energies to the task of circumnavigating Africa.
Some of them arecircumnavigating the planet while he is hitching his rocking chair about his hearth-rug.
The young prince surrounded himself with learned men, and especially gathered all the information he could as to the possibility of circumnavigating Africa, and thus reaching India.
It had been discovered in 1508 by Sebastian de Ocampo, while circumnavigating the island, and had been called Carenas.
There are seven inhabited, and fifteen deserted villages upon the islands, which will be briefly noticed in the order reached in circumnavigating the archipelago from North Island, proceeding eastward.
He followed Magellan in circumnavigating the globe, and wherever he went he left a track of plundered Spanish settlements behind.
We launched our boat on the lake and, circumnavigating it, discovered that there was only a periodical outlet to it.
So he decided to sail across the Pacific Ocean to the Molucca Islands, and complete his journey bycircumnavigating the globe.
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