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  • At nine got under weigh, and ran in on an east-by-south course 4 1/2 or

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn, and having over forty degrees of easting to make, we squared away the yards before a strong westerly gale, shook a reef out of the fore-topsail, and stood on our way, east-by-south, with the prospect of being up with the Cape in a week or ten days.

    Chapter XXXI. Bad Prospects-First Touch of Cape Horn-Icebergs-Temperance Ships-Lying-Up-Ice-Difficulty on Board-Change of Course-Straits of Magellan 1909

  • Whereby they made a good passage and anchored off one of the islands -- Otaheety or not, I won't say -- and took aboard a cargo, being, as they supposed, ord'nary breadfruit; and stood away east-by-south for the Horn, meaning to work up to Kingston, Jamaica.

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn, and having over forty degrees of easting to make, we squared away the yards before a strong westerly gale, shook a reef out of the fore-topsail, and stood on our way, east-by-south, with the prospect of being up with the Cape in a week or ten days.

    Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

  • We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn, and having over forty degrees of easting to make, we squared away the yards before a strong westerly gale, shook a reef out of the fore-topsail, and stood on our way, east-by-south, with the prospect of being up with the Cape in a week or ten days.

    Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

  • Horn, and having over forty degrees of easting to make, we squared away the yards before a strong westerly gale, shook a reef out of the fore topsail, and stood on our way, east-by-south, with the prospect of being up with the Cape in a week or ten days.

    Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

  • When it was day we steered north-east half east, then north-east - by-east till seven o'clock, and, being then seven or eight leagues off shore, we steered away east, the shore trending east-by-south.

    Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

  • The easternmost point of land seen bore east-by-south half-south, distance three leagues, and the westernmost west-south-west half-south, distance two leagues.

    Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

  • For this twenty-four hours we steered east-by-north with a large wind, yet made but an east-by-south half south course, though the variation was not above 7 degrees east.

    Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

  • The easternmost part of New Guinea seen bore east-by-south, distant twelve leagues; Cape Mabo west-south-west half-south, distant seven leagues.

    Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

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