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I was about to head over to Portlock when we got the call about you.
Rogue Wave Boyd Morrison 2010
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On Oahu's east shore in the Portlock neighborhood, the property once formed part of the home of industrialist Henry Kaiser.
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“Perhaps,” commented Flinders, “no space of 3 1/2 degrees in length presents more dangers than Torres Strait, but with caution and perseverance the captains, Bligh and Portlock, proved them to be surmountable, and within a reasonable time.”
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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The Assistant was pressed with especial severity, so that Portlock had to signal for help.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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The Assistant was pressed with especial severity, so that Portlock had to signal for help.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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Two years later, Portlock and Dixon sold their cargo for fifty-five thousand dollars; and when it is remembered that two hundred sea-otter -- twelve thousand dollars 'worth at the lowest average -- were sometimes got from the Nootka tribes for a few dollars' worth of old chisel iron -- the profit can be estimated.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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Portlock about the Irish Triangulation and its calculation.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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In 1793, previously to the INVESTIGATOR, and in the year following B.igh and Portlock, Messrs. William B.mpton and Matthew B. Alt, commanders of the ships HORMUZEER and CHESTERFELD, sailed from Norfolk Island, with the intention of passing through Torres Straits by a route which the commanders did not know had been before attempted.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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In 1792, the PROVIDENCE and ASSISTANT, Captains Bligh and Portlock, sailed through the Straits, conveying the bread-fruit plant from Tahiti to the West Indies.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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France from Bengal in 1788, met with the English Captain Portlock in the roadstead of St. Helena.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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