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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... small boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned three or four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in ...
... small boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned three or four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in ...
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... small , the streets are narrow , and worfe paved than any I ever faw . The churches are loaded with ornaments , among which are many pic- tures , and images of favourite faints , but the pictures are in general wretchedly painted , and ...
... small , the streets are narrow , and worfe paved than any I ever faw . The churches are loaded with ornaments , among which are many pic- tures , and images of favourite faints , but the pictures are in general wretchedly painted , and ...
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... small chapel , the whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the fculls one is ...
... small chapel , the whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the fculls one is ...
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... small bladder about feven inches long , very . much resembling the air - bladder of fishes , from the bottom of which defcended a number of ftrings , of a bright blue and red , some of them three or four feet in length , which upon ...
... small bladder about feven inches long , very . much resembling the air - bladder of fishes , from the bottom of which defcended a number of ftrings , of a bright blue and red , some of them three or four feet in length , which upon ...
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... small crabs , of three different fpecies , each of which gave as much light as a glow - worm , though the creature was not fo large by nine tenths : upon examination of these animals Mr. Banks had the fatisfaction to find that they were ...
... small crabs , of three different fpecies , each of which gave as much light as a glow - worm , though the creature was not fo large by nine tenths : upon examination of these animals Mr. Banks had the fatisfaction to find that they were ...
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