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Example sentences for "this voyage"

  • Of a bird that shows the Cape of Good Hope to be near: of the sea-reckonings, and variations: and a table of all the variations observed in this voyage.

  • A table of all the variations observed in this voyage.

  • I have given some account of the island of Mayo and of other of these islands in my Voyage round the World, but I shall now add some further observations that occurred to me in this voyage.

  • But if it please God that I return again safe, the reader may expect a continuation of this voyage from my departure from New Holland till the foundering of my ship near the island of Ascension.

  • Harding often talked over this project with Pencroft, and he found him strangely bent upon undertaking this voyage, for which determination he himself could give no sufficient reason.

  • But, captain, as we must provide against everything, I shall ask your permission to take Herbert only with me on this voyage.

  • Besides, we will speak further of this voyage, when the time comes to make it.

  • But it is obvious, from the very circumstance of the difference betwixt the two attempts recorded in this voyage, that a considerable variation in the state and intensity of the obstructing cause may occur in various years.

  • See all that is known of this voyage, and a chart of discoveries, in Mr Coxe's Account of Russian-Discoveries between Asia and America.

  • The reader need scarcely be reminded, that mention is made in the introduction to this voyage, of an honourable testimony of British gratitude for the extraordinary services of this generous man.

  • The original observations that were made in the course of this voyage, have been published by order of the Board of Longitude, and to those I must refer the reader, for his further information on this subject.

  • For, from the date of this voyage up to the present period, so far at least as has been published, no one has surpassed the limit of his examination.

  • When Cook left on this voyage he had, it has been shown, many advantages over Dampier in the matter of nautical instruments, but there is little doubt that he had absolutely no knowledge of the eastern coast of Australia.

  • This voyage of discovery was the first English scientific expedition since that of the Roebuck.

  • This voyage is also noteworthy on account of the massacre of the master of the Arnhem and eight of his crew by the natives while they were exploring the coast of New Guinea.

  • Footnote 43: Corea was long thought to be an island after the period of this voyage.

  • This voyage, as given by Purchas, contains very little information, and is therefore here abridged, though not extending to two folio pages in the Pilgrims.

  • The Spaniards suffered much from hunger in this voyage, as they could find nothing fit to eat along this coast except the fruit of a tree called mangles, which grew in great abundance everywhere along the shore.

  • I do not know the particulars of this voyage: But, about three years afterwards, I met a sailor who had sailed in this expedition, who told me many strange things respecting the cities and nations he had seen.

  • Sidenote: The number of men in this voyage.

  • For his commission directed him in this voyage, onely for the searching of the Ore, and to deferre the further discouery of the passage vntill another time.

  • In this voyage we lost two men, one in the way by Gods visitation, and the other homeward cast ouer borde with a surge of the Sea.

  • That John and Sebastian Cabot sailed on this voyage.

  • We were absent thirteen months on this voyage, exposing ourselves to awful dangers, and discovering a very large country of Asia and a great many islands, the largest part of them inhabited.

  • It appears to me, most excellent Lorenzo, that by this voyage most of those philosophers are controverted who say that the torrid zone cannot be inhabited on account of the great heat.

  • This voyage of Cartier, made in 1535, was the earliest visit by any navigator on record to this region.

  • There was no haphazard sailing on this voyage.

  • I'm afraid you're thinking more of the fun you are going to have than the real reason for this voyage, Bob.

  • He's on this voyage to be cured, and I'm going to do it If I have to keelhaul him.

  • Lucky I bought a water-proof match box before I started on this voyage.

  • If I had known my ship was going to be wrecked I'd not have taken you on this voyage.

  • Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, and Dr Solander, accompanied Cook in this voyage.

  • In the mean time the reader may amuse himself with the following notices in addition to the substance of the text; they are extracted from the account of this voyage, already referred to in the preceding notes.

  • The longitude in this voyage is reckoned from the meridian of London, west to 180 degrees, and east afterwards.

  • The longitude in this voyage is reckoned from the meridian of London.

  • The charter was obtained in the autumn of this same year, 1603, and before the account of this voyage by Champlain was printed.

  • As this voyage of discovery had been planned and provisioned for only six weeks, and more than five had already elapsed, on the 25th of July De Monts and his party left Nauset harbor, to join the colony still lingering at St. Croix.

  • Several important suggestions for the implement of the lifeboat liquid compass were obtained during my use of it in this voyage, and these have been duly appreciated by the Lifeboat Institution.

  • It had not yet become my plan to pass whole nights at sea as was necessary in the latter part of this voyage.

  • In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.

  • Of this voyage we have Columbus's own official account.

  • One of the accounts of this voyage(*) relates that the captive women, who had taken refuge with the Spaniards, were persuaded by them to entice some of the Caribs to the beach.

  • The special interest of this voyage for us, is that it is supposed that Vespucci, a Florentine merchant, made at this time his first expedition to America.


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