 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 504 pages
...under our foresail a:id r.iizen stay-sail. We had very heavy squalls, and hard rain, during the next twenty-four hours ; after which, the horizon clearing...topsails; but the wind, still continuing to blow from the north west, baffled all our endeavours to make the land, and obliged us, at last, to give up (ill further... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 pages
...brought under our foresail and mizen stay-sail. We had very heavy squalls and hard rain, during the. next twenty-four hours; after which, the horizon clearing a little, and the weather growin¿mode.' rate, we were enabled to set the top-sailsi; but the wind, still continuing to blow... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 542 pages
...brought under our foresail and mizen stay-sail. We had very heavy squalls and hard rain, during the next twenty-four hours; after which, the horizon clearing...make the land, and obliged us, at last, to give up .ill further thoughts of discovery to the N. of Japan. We submitted to this disappointment with the... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 486 pages
...brought under our foresail and mizen stay-sail. We had very heavy squalls, and hard rain during the next twenty-four hours; after which, the horizon clearing...topsails ; but the wind still continuing to blow from the north-west, baffled all our endeavours to make the land, and obliged us at last to give up all further... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1832 - 238 pages
...southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan. On the 26th, at day-break, they descried high land to the westward, which proved to... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 654 pages
...brought under our foresail and mizen staysail. We had very heavy squalls, and hard rain during the next twenty-four hours ; after which, the horizon clearing...topsails ; but the wind still continuing to blow from the north-west, baffled all our endeavours to make the land, and obliged us at last to give up all further... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1853 - 468 pages
...southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan. On the 22d, the gale having abated, they let out the reefs of the top-sails and made... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1878 - 484 pages
...southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan. On the 2znd, the gale having abated, they let out the reefs of the topsails and made... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1924 - 450 pages
...southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan. On the 22nd, the gale having abated, they let out the reefs of the topsails and made... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1924 - 448 pages
...southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan. On the 22nd, the gale having abated, they let out the reefs of the topsails and made... | |
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twenty-four hours; after which, the horizon clearing a little, and the weather growing moderate, we were enabled to set the top-sails; but the wind, still continuing to blow from the NW, baffled all our endeavours to make the land, and obliged us, at... 
