 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that ever...southward till midnight, when I tacked, and steered to the NW with a gentle breeze at SW intending to stand in for the land as soon as day-light should appear.... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 526 דפים
...that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor it there the least probability that ever any such thing...southward till midnight, when I tacked, and steered to the NW with a gentle breeze at SW intending to stand in for the land as soon as day-light should appear.... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 654 דפים
...we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. We saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that ever...thing existed*. I stood off to the southward till night, when I tacked and steered to the north-west, with * In our calendar, the 7lh of March is dintinjzniahrd... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. AA'e saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existedJ. I stood off to the southward till night, when I tacked and steered to the north-west, with... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1846 - 248 דפים
...latitude that geographers have placed the pretended Strait of Juan de Fuca ; but we saw nothing like it, nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed." From this point the discoveries of Cook established the fact of there being no opening into the North... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 746 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended Strait of Jnan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it, nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed."* The great commander was obliged to stand off-the coast for the night, but a hard gale obliged him to... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1868 - 428 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed." Tolerably positive language ! — more especially when we know the real facts of the voyage, as later... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1868 - 442 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed." Tolerably positive language ! — more especially when we know the real facts of the voyage, as later... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1869 - 390 דפים
...now were, that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it, nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed. Tolerably positive language — more especially when we know the real facts of the voyage as later... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak - 1884 - 760 דפים
...Cook, ."that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed." The English navigator was very lucky in his conclusions; for if when off Cape Gregory he had seen the... | |
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It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed. 
