The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1933 - Great Britain |
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... continent ; then , if he discovered no signs of it , he was to run westward between 40 ° and 35 ° until he came to the unknown eastern coast of New Zealand , of which Tasman had sighted only the western shores . If , however , he ...
... continent ; then , if he discovered no signs of it , he was to run westward between 40 ° and 35 ° until he came to the unknown eastern coast of New Zealand , of which Tasman had sighted only the western shores . If , however , he ...
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... continent . Cook found the strait and traversed it , and modestly claimed no more credit than that of settling a doubtful point . After examining parts of the southern coast of New Guinea , the Endeavour reached Batavia . She left that ...
... continent . Cook found the strait and traversed it , and modestly claimed no more credit than that of settling a doubtful point . After examining parts of the southern coast of New Guinea , the Endeavour reached Batavia . She left that ...
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... continent that attention was turned - the real continent that had at last displaced the southern continent so long imagined and sought . By the end of the war the penal station was becoming a colony , settlement was spreading , and the ...
... continent that attention was turned - the real continent that had at last displaced the southern continent so long imagined and sought . By the end of the war the penal station was becoming a colony , settlement was spreading , and the ...
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