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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... sometimes fend them to Lisbon , without acquainting their friends or family with what is laid to their charge , or where they may be found . To restrain the people from travelling into the country , and getting into any district where ...
... sometimes fend them to Lisbon , without acquainting their friends or family with what is laid to their charge , or where they may be found . To restrain the people from travelling into the country , and getting into any district where ...
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... sometimes in more , they return ; and after that , whoever is found in these precious districts , on any pretence , before the next year , is immediately put to death . The jewels found here , are diamonds , topazes of several kinds ...
... sometimes in more , they return ; and after that , whoever is found in these precious districts , on any pretence , before the next year , is immediately put to death . The jewels found here , are diamonds , topazes of several kinds ...
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... sometimes fix the pillar of a fun - dial , where each Thursday 29 . fide is a flight of steps ; the steps , however , at the fides , were broader than thofe at the ends , fo that it terminated not in a fquare of the fame figure with the ...
... sometimes fix the pillar of a fun - dial , where each Thursday 29 . fide is a flight of steps ; the steps , however , at the fides , were broader than thofe at the ends , fo that it terminated not in a fquare of the fame figure with the ...
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... sometimes eaten in our company ; but then she has expreffed the greatest unwillingness that it should be known , and always extorted the ftrongest promises of fecrecy . Among themselves , even two brothers and two fifters have cach ...
... sometimes eaten in our company ; but then she has expreffed the greatest unwillingness that it should be known , and always extorted the ftrongest promises of fecrecy . Among themselves , even two brothers and two fifters have cach ...
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... sometimes vie with each other in throwing a lance . As fhooting is not at a mark , but for distance ; throwing the lance is not for distance , but at a mark the weapon is about nine feet long , the mark is the bole of a plantain , and ...
... sometimes vie with each other in throwing a lance . As fhooting is not at a mark , but for distance ; throwing the lance is not for distance , but at a mark the weapon is about nine feet long , the mark is the bole of a plantain , and ...
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