east by south
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The course thence to the Maes is east by south, but we sailed for the most part east, and sometimes east by north.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
At eight o'clock in the morning of the 22d, they saw Norfolk Island, bearing east by south twelve leagues distant.
From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip
When it was day we steered north-east half east, then north-east by east till 7 o'clock; and being then 7 or 8 leagues off shore we steered away east; the shore trending east by south.
From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
A. To steer off to the eastward, or east by south, just as the wind was; that was near the course that was ordered.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
Direction today east by south half south; distance sixteen miles.
From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough
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