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... Our Public Lands - Page 181976Full view - About this book
| General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...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...of our transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being now completed, I received an order to proceed... | |
| James Cook - 1821 - 488 pages
...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...home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of cur transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 pages
...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...of our transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being now completed, I received anorder to proceed... | |
| Andrew Kippis - 1826 - 464 pages
...to the sailor and the scholar, Mr. \Vebber was fixed upon, and engaged to embark in the Resolution, for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable imperfections of written accounts, by enabling our people to preserve and to bring home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of their transactions,... | |
| James Cook - 1842 - 654 pages
...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...of our transactions as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being now completed, I received an order to proceed... | |
| James Cook - 1842 - 644 pages
...entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and scholar, Mr. Wobber was pitched upon, and engaged to embark with me, for...of our transactions as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being now completed, I received an order to proceed... | |
| Bolton Glanvill Corney - 1918 - 358 pages
...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...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. executed by a professed and skilful... | |
| Robert E. Snodgrass - 1928 - 678 pages
...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 hands over the ankles conform with Cook's statement that " al>out their ankles they also frequently... | |
| 1928 - 726 pages
...sailor and scholar, Mr. Webber was pitched upon, SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, VOL. 80, No. 10 and engaged to embark with me, for the express purpose...memorable scenes of our transactions, as could only l>e executed by a professed and skillful artist." This tends to prove with what great interest the... | |
| 1928 - 692 pages
...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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