The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 39Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1870 - Naval art and science |
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... direction . We then got a light breeze from the S.E. which brought us out of the bight again , and we felt a slight westerly current from then until we were in lat . 14 ° N. , long . 155 ° E. , wind varying from S.E. to S. W. , and a ...
... direction . We then got a light breeze from the S.E. which brought us out of the bight again , and we felt a slight westerly current from then until we were in lat . 14 ° N. , long . 155 ° E. , wind varying from S.E. to S. W. , and a ...
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... direction to that of the usual trade - winds , and are carried out perhaps hundreds of miles into the boundless ocean . For example , Captain Beechy , R.N. , fell in , in the course of one of his voyages in the Pacific , with a party of ...
... direction to that of the usual trade - winds , and are carried out perhaps hundreds of miles into the boundless ocean . For example , Captain Beechy , R.N. , fell in , in the course of one of his voyages in the Pacific , with a party of ...
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... direction . Tooi Hata Fatai , a chief of the Friendly Islands , set sail for the Fiji Islands some time afterwards , with two hundred and fifty followers , in three large canoes , each of which must have carried upwards of eighty men ...
... direction . Tooi Hata Fatai , a chief of the Friendly Islands , set sail for the Fiji Islands some time afterwards , with two hundred and fifty followers , in three large canoes , each of which must have carried upwards of eighty men ...
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... direction . In confirmation of this remark , it may be observed that the word Tonga , the name of the principal island of that group - signifies east both in the Polynesian and Chinese languages ; for that designation will doubtless ...
... direction . In confirmation of this remark , it may be observed that the word Tonga , the name of the principal island of that group - signifies east both in the Polynesian and Chinese languages ; for that designation will doubtless ...
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... direction , they leave but a small channel between them , but which is used by the trading craft of the country . Bay of Magnoe . - Continuing through the strait of Ticlines , near the coast of Luzon , we come to the bay of Magnoe , but ...
... direction , they leave but a small channel between them , but which is used by the trading craft of the country . Bay of Magnoe . - Continuing through the strait of Ticlines , near the coast of Luzon , we come to the bay of Magnoe , but ...
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