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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... seen from the deck they do not appear to fo much advantage , because their backs are of a dark colour . We also took a fhark , which proved to be the Squalus Carcharias of Linnæus . Having loft the trade wind on the 3d , in latitude 12 ...
... seen from the deck they do not appear to fo much advantage , because their backs are of a dark colour . We also took a fhark , which proved to be the Squalus Carcharias of Linnæus . Having loft the trade wind on the 3d , in latitude 12 ...
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... seen at a distance . On this day we ftood along the shore for Rio de Janeiro , and at nine the next morning made fail for the harbour . I then fent Mr. Hicks , my First Lieutenant , before us in the pinnace , up to the city , to ...
... seen at a distance . On this day we ftood along the shore for Rio de Janeiro , and at nine the next morning made fail for the harbour . I then fent Mr. Hicks , my First Lieutenant , before us in the pinnace , up to the city , to ...
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... seen ; a day seldom paffed in which one or more of a new fpecies were not brought to Mr. Banks : the bay also is as well adapted for catching these fish as can be conceived ; for it is full of small islands , between which there is ...
... seen ; a day seldom paffed in which one or more of a new fpecies were not brought to Mr. Banks : the bay also is as well adapted for catching these fish as can be conceived ; for it is full of small islands , between which there is ...
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... seen in England , though at this time we could not be lefs than thirty leagues from land ; and some of these infects , particularly the Grylli and Aranea , never voluntarily leave it at a greater diftance than twenty yards . We judged ...
... seen in England , though at this time we could not be lefs than thirty leagues from land ; and some of these infects , particularly the Grylli and Aranea , never voluntarily leave it at a greater diftance than twenty yards . We judged ...
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... , or what they had seen . In about half an hour , Mr. Banks returned to the ship , and the Indians retired from the shore . 1769 . January . Sunday 15 . С НА Р. G 2 . 1769 . January . CHAP . IV . An Account ROUND THE WORLD . 45.
... , or what they had seen . In about half an hour , Mr. Banks returned to the ship , and the Indians retired from the shore . 1769 . January . Sunday 15 . С НА Р. G 2 . 1769 . January . CHAP . IV . An Account ROUND THE WORLD . 45.
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