 | General history - 1815 - 802 sider
...I knew to be highly requisite, if we would render our discoveries profitable to future navigators. And that we might go out with every help that could...home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of our transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 sider
...highly requisite, if we would render our discoveries profitable to future navigators. And that we mistht go out with every help that could serve to make the...home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of our transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1826 - 464 sider
...future navigators. That he might go out with every help, which could serve to make the result of the voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and the scholar, Mr. \Vebber was fixed upon, and engaged to embark in the Resolution, for the express purpose... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 654 sider
...I knew to be highly requisite, if we would render our discoveries profitable to future navigators. And that we might go out with every help that could...home such drawings of the most memorable scenes of our transactions as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 sider
...I knew to be highly requisite, if we would render our discoveries profitable to future navigators. And that we might go out with every help that could...well as instructive to the sailor and scholar, Mr. Wobber was pitched upon, and engaged to embark with me, for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1853 - 468 sider
...future navigators. That he mipht go out with every help, which could serve to make the result of the voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and the scholar, Mr. Webber was fixed upon, and engaged to embark in the Resolution, for the express purpose... | |
 | Bolton Glanvill Corney - 1918 - 358 sider
...father's genius for art, and "was pitched upon and engaged," as Captain Cook relates in his Journal 4 , "for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable...home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of our transactions as could only be 1 Bibl. no. 28, vol. n, pp. 17, 18. 2 Bibl. no. 107, vol. I, p. 13o.... | |
 | Robert E. Snodgrass - 1928 - 678 sider
...His death proved a great loss to the expedition. To quote again from Captain Cook's own narrative : "And, that we might go out with every help that could...the sailor and scholar, Mr. Webber was pitched upon, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 80, No. 10 2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.... | |
 | 1928 - 726 sider
...His death proved a great loss to the expedition. To quote again from Captain Cook's own narrative: "And, that we might go out with every help that could...the sailor and scholar, Mr. Webber was pitched upon, SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, VOL. 80, No. 10 and engaged to embark with me, for the express... | |
 | 1928 - 692 sider
...was not described in the narrative and thus tends to prove the value of Webber's drawings, produced " for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable imperfections of written accounts." The bands over the ankles conform with Cook's statement that " about their ankles they also frequently... | |
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And that we might go out with every help that could serve to make the result of our voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and scholar, Mr. "Webber was pitched upon, and engaged to embark with me, for the... 
