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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Louis Antoine de Bougainville , a French soldier turned navigator , sailed shortly after Wallis and Carteret , and made a notable voyage through the southern Pacific in 1768. He visited Tahiti , only to find that the British had ...
Louis Antoine de Bougainville , a French soldier turned navigator , sailed shortly after Wallis and Carteret , and made a notable voyage through the southern Pacific in 1768. He visited Tahiti , only to find that the British had ...
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After carrying out the astronomical work at Tahiti , Cook was to sail southward as far as 40 ° S. , in search of the ... The observations were successfully made , and on 13 July 1769 the expedition sailed on the serious business of ...
After carrying out the astronomical work at Tahiti , Cook was to sail southward as far as 40 ° S. , in search of the ... The observations were successfully made , and on 13 July 1769 the expedition sailed on the serious business of ...
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Baudin sailed from Havre in October 1800 , and as Flinders did not sail from England till the following July , had all the advantage of time , and might have been the discoverer of the south coast . But he wasted forty days at Mauritius ...
Baudin sailed from Havre in October 1800 , and as Flinders did not sail from England till the following July , had all the advantage of time , and might have been the discoverer of the south coast . But he wasted forty days at Mauritius ...
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