The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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The evi- dence , however , points to an expectation rather than a certainty , and we may believe that Magellan was prepared to stake his life upon a chance.1 He sailed from Spain in 1519. After a long delay on the South American coast ...
The evi- dence , however , points to an expectation rather than a certainty , and we may believe that Magellan was prepared to stake his life upon a chance.1 He sailed from Spain in 1519. After a long delay on the South American coast ...
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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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Cook sailed by way of Cape Horn . After passing it , he kept farther away from the Chilean coast than was usual in the course towards tropical latitudes , in order not to miss sighting the continent which was surmised to lie ...
Cook sailed by way of Cape Horn . After passing it , he kept farther away from the Chilean coast than was usual in the course towards tropical latitudes , in order not to miss sighting the continent which was surmised to lie ...
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