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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... side of the bay , at the foot of feveral high mountains which rife be- hind it . It is neither ill defigned nor ill built ; the houses , in general , are of stone , and two stories high ; every house having , after the manner of the ...
... side of the bay , at the foot of feveral high mountains which rife be- hind it . It is neither ill defigned nor ill built ; the houses , in general , are of stone , and two stories high ; every house having , after the manner of the ...
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Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq John Hawkesworth. 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. side.
Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq John Hawkesworth. 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. side.
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... side of Terra del F A View of Strait Le Maire with Part of Terra del Fuego AView of Part of the S W. side of Terra del F ego taken from the Point , Ain the Chart ,
... side of Terra del F A View of Strait Le Maire with Part of Terra del Fuego AView of Part of the S W. side of Terra del F ego taken from the Point , Ain the Chart ,
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... side of him , so as to form a femicircle ; these were the judges , by whom the victor was to be applauded ; feats were also left for us at each end of the line ; but we chose rather to be at liberty among the rest : of the fpectators ...
... side of him , so as to form a femicircle ; these were the judges , by whom the victor was to be applauded ; feats were also left for us at each end of the line ; but we chose rather to be at liberty among the rest : of the fpectators ...
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... side of the bay ; but he refused , and advised us not to go , for he said the country there was inhabited by people who were not subject to Tootahah , and who would kill both him and us . Upon receiving this intelligence , we did not ...
... side of the bay ; but he refused , and advised us not to go , for he said the country there was inhabited by people who were not subject to Tootahah , and who would kill both him and us . Upon receiving this intelligence , we did not ...
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