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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... see all the Monday 21 . people come on board in the yawl . From them we learnt , that the long - boat having filled with water , they had brought her to a grapling and left her ; and that , having fallen in with the reef of rocks in ...
... see all the Monday 21 . people come on board in the yawl . From them we learnt , that the long - boat having filled with water , they had brought her to a grapling and left her ; and that , having fallen in with the reef of rocks in ...
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... see that no ftrag- gler was left behind : this may perhaps be thought a super- fluous caution , but it will foon appear to be otherwise . Dr. Solander , who had more than once croffed the mountains which divide Sweden from Norway , well ...
... see that no ftrag- gler was left behind : this may perhaps be thought a super- fluous caution , but it will foon appear to be otherwise . Dr. Solander , who had more than once croffed the mountains which divide Sweden from Norway , well ...
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... see whether the poor wretches whom they had been obliged to leave among the bushes were yet alive ; three of the company were dispatched for that purpose , and very foon afterwards returned with the melan- choly news , that they were ...
... see whether the poor wretches whom they had been obliged to leave among the bushes were yet alive ; three of the company were dispatched for that purpose , and very foon afterwards returned with the melan- choly news , that they were ...
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... see whether all that had been taken away was returned , and upon examining the box found the stand , and a few small things of lefs confequence , wanting ; feveral perfons were fent in fearch of these , and most of the small things were ...
... see whether all that had been taken away was returned , and upon examining the box found the stand , and a few small things of lefs confequence , wanting ; feveral perfons were fent in fearch of these , and most of the small things were ...
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... see a single bread - fruit ; the trees were entirely bare , and : the inhabitants feemed to fubfift principally upon nuts which . are not unlike a chefnut , and which they call Ahee . When we had walked till we were weary , we called up ...
... see a single bread - fruit ; the trees were entirely bare , and : the inhabitants feemed to fubfift principally upon nuts which . are not unlike a chefnut , and which they call Ahee . When we had walked till we were weary , we called up ...
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