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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... seven feet , there is no other way of coming at a fhip's bottom . When the boat which had been fent on fhore returned , we hoifted her on board , and stood out to fea.- CHAP . 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... seven feet , there is no other way of coming at a fhip's bottom . When the boat which had been fent on fhore returned , we hoifted her on board , and stood out to fea.- CHAP . 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... seven leagues from New Ifland , in the direction of S. W. lies the ifle Evouts ; and a little to the weft of the fouth of this island lie Barnevelt's two small flat iflands , close to each other ; they are partly furrounded with rocks ...
... seven leagues from New Ifland , in the direction of S. W. lies the ifle Evouts ; and a little to the weft of the fouth of this island lie Barnevelt's two small flat iflands , close to each other ; they are partly furrounded with rocks ...
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... seven men , and one of them hoisted a fail which did not seem to reach more than fix feet above the gunwale of the boat , and which , upon the falling of a flight fhower , was taken down and converted into an awning or tilt . The canoe ...
... seven men , and one of them hoisted a fail which did not seem to reach more than fix feet above the gunwale of the boat , and which , upon the falling of a flight fhower , was taken down and converted into an awning or tilt . The canoe ...
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... seven miles diftant from the fort , where the Indians might be less fubmiffive than at home , and to take from them what they had ventured their lives to get ; and what , notwithstanding our conjectures , they ap- peared defirous to ...
... seven miles diftant from the fort , where the Indians might be less fubmiffive than at home , and to take from them what they had ventured their lives to get ; and what , notwithstanding our conjectures , they ap- peared defirous to ...
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... was detected , but only seven nails were found in his custody . He was punished with two dozen lashes , but would impeach none of his accomplices . T 2 CHAP . 1769 . June . 1769 . June . Monday 5 . CHA P. XIV ROUND THE WORLD . 14.
... was detected , but only seven nails were found in his custody . He was punished with two dozen lashes , but would impeach none of his accomplices . T 2 CHAP . 1769 . June . 1769 . June . Monday 5 . CHA P. XIV ROUND THE WORLD . 14.
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