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George Robertson (sailor)
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Captain George Robertson (died 1791) was an English sailor known for accompanying the Dolphin on her second circumnavigation of the globe (1766–8) and writing an account of the voyage.
Quotes
All the sailors swore that they never saw handsomer made women in their lives, and declared they would all to a man live on two thirds allowance rather than lose so fine an opportunity of getting a girl apiece.
On Captain Samuel Wallis' visit to Tahiti, 1767
The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of H. M. S. Dolphin Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768, Hakluyt Society, vol. 98 (London, 1948), p. 167
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