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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 1THE PESCADORES, THE RIMSKI-KORSAKOFF, THE ESCHSCHOLTZ, AND THE BRONUS ISLES. THE PESCADORES, THE RIMSKI- KORSAKOFF, THE ESCHSCHOLTZ, AND THE BRONUS ISLES. On leaving the Sandwich Isles, we steered southward, it being my intention to sail by a track not hitherto pursued by navigators who have left us records of their voyages, to the Radack chain of islands. At Hanaruro, several captains had mentioned to me an island situated in 17 32' latitude, and 163 52' longitude. On the 23rd of September we crossed this point, and saw indeed birds of a description that rarely fly to any great distance from land; but the reported island itself we were unable to descry even from the mast-head, although the atmosphere was perfectly clear: so little is the intelligence of masters of trading-vessels to be relied on. 270 THE UUIR1K GROUP. On the 26th, we were, by observation, in 14 32' latitude, and 169 textit{38 longitude. During the whole of the day, large flights of such sea- birds were seen as indicate the neighbourhood of land, and even some land-birds; so that no doubt remained of our having sailed at no great distance from an island hitherto unknown, the discovery of which is reserved for some future voyager. During the whole of this course, we had frequent signs of the vicinity of land, but never to the same extent as on this day. A captain, who had frequently made the voyage from the Sandwich Isles to Canton, asserts his having discovered a shoal in 14 42' latitude, and 170 30' longitude. I can neither confirm nor confute this assertion; and my only motive for repeating it here is, that vessels passing near that point may be put upon their guard. On the 5th of October we reached the Udirik group, the most northern of the islands belonging to the Radack chain. We sailed past its sou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443291668
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443291668
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 48


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