Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Vydání 3Lea and Blanchard, 1845 Trade or public edition of Wilkes's narrative of the expedition directed to the general reader. The expedition roved from the southern most tip of South America to the Oregon coast, through the south and north Pacific and Antarctic waters. In the course of the expedition many locations were visited: Brazil, Patagonia, Chile, Peru, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Borneo, the Philippines, Singapore with extended stays at Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. This and all eds later than 1845 appeared without an atlas. |
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Strana 125
... height , whose stratification dips ten degrees to the eastward . Ranges of hills now rear themselves to a goodly height , and extend some miles back into the interior . They next passed the town of Naitasiri , where one of the brothers ...
... height , whose stratification dips ten degrees to the eastward . Ranges of hills now rear themselves to a goodly height , and extend some miles back into the interior . They next passed the town of Naitasiri , where one of the brothers ...
Strana 211
... height the passages through the reefs were very distinctly seen , and could be traced for a long distance . On presents being dis- tributed to all the natives who were present , it was amusing to see the young son of a chief , according ...
... height the passages through the reefs were very distinctly seen , and could be traced for a long distance . On presents being dis- tributed to all the natives who were present , it was amusing to see the young son of a chief , according ...
Strana 217
... height ; and the land , as it recedes from the water , forms a kind of hanging garden , on which is seen a beautiful growth of large forest - trees , with here and there clumps of shrubbery of the tropical climates , which give it a ...
... height ; and the land , as it recedes from the water , forms a kind of hanging garden , on which is seen a beautiful growth of large forest - trees , with here and there clumps of shrubbery of the tropical climates , which give it a ...
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