 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 σελίδες
...to ue of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the public. , , -ij • •: The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...obliged to leave the Japanese archipelago, and the northern coast of China, unexplored, first suggested ; and, by what [conceived, that object might still... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 486 σελίδες
...commercial views, appear to me of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the public. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...time, was not far short of mutiny ; and I must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project, which the disappointment we had suffered, in being... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 548 σελίδες
...to call for the attention of the public. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to re^ turn to Cook's river, and by another cargo of skins to...time was not far short of mutiny ; and i must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project, which the disappointment we had suffered, in being... | |
 | General history - 1824 - 554 σελίδες
...public. The rage with which qur seamen were possessed to return to Cook's river, and by another eargo of skins to make their fortunes, at one time was not far short of mutiny ; and 1 must own, I could not help indulging myself in S project, which the disappointment \ve baa su$eredj... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1826 - 464 σελίδες
...out, or had been given away or sold at Kamtschatka. In consequence hereof, the rage with which the seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and...by another cargo of skins to make their fortunes, was, at one time, not far short of mutiny. The numerous voyages that have since been undertaken tor... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 σελίδες
...commercial views, appear to me of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the public. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...time, was not far short of mutiny ; and I must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project, which the disappointment we had suffered, in being... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 654 σελίδες
...cargo of skins, to make their fortunes at one time, was not far short of mutiny ; and I must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project, which...obliged to leave the Japanese Archipelago, and the northern coast of China, unexplored, first suggested ; and, by what I conceived, that object might... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1884 - 768 σελίδες
...yet the remnant was sold for about ten thousand dollars. Little wonder that, as Captain King says, "the rage with which our seamen were possessed to...another cargo of skins, to make their fortunes, at one tune, was not far short of mutiny; and I must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project,"... | |
 | James Cook - 1904 - 454 σελίδες
...Americans were spoiled and worn out, or had been given away and otherwise disposed of in Kamtschatka. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and buy another cargo of skins to make their fortunes at one time was not far short of mutiny. The barter... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 σελίδες
...certainly disposed of at much less than their value, fetched two thousand pounds sterling in China goods. "The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River and, by another cargo of furs to make their fortune at one time, was not far short of mutiny." So wrote James King, who was... | |
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The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and, by another cargo of skins, to make their fortunes at one time, was not far short of mutiny... 
