An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq, Band 2W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 First edition of the narrative of Cook's first voyage. Volume I contains accounts of the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, including the discovery of Tahiti; volumes II and III contain Hawkesworth's edited account of Captain [then Lieutenant] Cook's voyage. Cook had been commissioned to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti and to carry on John Byron's survey and exploration of the seas between Cape Horn and New Holland, and he added more than 5000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reff and New Zealand which he circumnavigated. |
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... same feafon of the year with ours , was three months in getting through the Streight of Magellan , exclufive of the time that fhe lay in Port Famine ; and I am perfuaded , from the winds we had , that if we had come by that passage , we ...
... same feafon of the year with ours , was three months in getting through the Streight of Magellan , exclufive of the time that fhe lay in Port Famine ; and I am perfuaded , from the winds we had , that if we had come by that passage , we ...
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... one day ; and what is more remarkable , he caught two foreft flies , both of them of the same species , but different from any that have hither- March . Wednef . 1 . 1769 . March . Wednef . 8 , Friday 24 K 2 to ROUND THE WORLD . 69.
... one day ; and what is more remarkable , he caught two foreft flies , both of them of the same species , but different from any that have hither- March . Wednef . 1 . 1769 . March . Wednef . 8 , Friday 24 K 2 to ROUND THE WORLD . 69.
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... same time that confusion and quar- rels must neceffarily have arifen from there being no standard at market : I drew up the following rules , and ordered that they should be punctually obferved . Rules to be obferved by every perfon in ...
... same time that confusion and quar- rels must neceffarily have arifen from there being no standard at market : I drew up the following rules , and ordered that they should be punctually obferved . Rules to be obferved by every perfon in ...
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... same state of trial with the meanest servant . in Europe among unlocked coffers of jewels and gold . Wednef . 26 . Thursday 27 . On the 26th , I mounted fix fwivel guns upon the fort , which I was forry to fee ftruck the natives with ...
... same state of trial with the meanest servant . in Europe among unlocked coffers of jewels and gold . Wednef . 26 . Thursday 27 . On the 26th , I mounted fix fwivel guns upon the fort , which I was forry to fee ftruck the natives with ...
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... same intelligence to the mind , it is merely because the fame intel- ligence is not required of them : he that can fee may do from choice what the blind do by neceffity , and by the fame diligent attention to the other fenfes , may ...
... same intelligence to the mind , it is merely because the fame intel- ligence is not required of them : he that can fee may do from choice what the blind do by neceffity , and by the fame diligent attention to the other fenfes , may ...
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