A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 16
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 16
By Robert S. Kerr
21 May, 2019
Excerpt....As before related, taken our final leave of the Friendly Islands, I now resume my narrative of the voyage. In the evening of the 17th of July, at eight o' clock, the body of Eaoo bore N.E. by N., distant three or four leagues. The wind was
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Excerpt....As before related, taken our final leave of the Friendly Islands, I now resume my narrative of the voyage. In the evening of the 17th of July, at eight o' clock, the body of Eaoo bore N.E. by N., distant three or four leagues. The wind was now at E. and blew a fresh gale. With it I stood to the S., till half an hour past six o' clock the next morning, when a sudden squall, from the same direction, took our ship back; and, before the sails could be trimmed on the other tack, the main-sail and the top-gallant sails were much torn. Less