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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... Cape Horn to the newly discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and Appearance ; fome Account of the Inhabitants , and several Incidents that happened during the Course , and at the Ship's Arrival among ...
... Cape Horn to the newly discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and Appearance ; fome Account of the Inhabitants , and several Incidents that happened during the Course , and at the Ship's Arrival among ...
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... Cape Turnagain , and back to Tolaga ; with fome Account of the People and the Country , and feveral Inci- dents that happened on that Part of the Coaft . .296 CHAP . III . The Range from Tolaga to Mercury Bay , with an Account of many ...
... Cape Turnagain , and back to Tolaga ; with fome Account of the People and the Country , and feveral Inci- dents that happened on that Part of the Coaft . .296 CHAP . III . The Range from Tolaga to Mercury Bay , with an Account of many ...
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... Cape to Queen Charlotte's Sound ; and a Defcription of that Part of the Coaft . CHAP . VI . 371 Tranfactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound : Paffage through the Streight which divides the two Islands , and back to Cape Turn- again : Horrid ...
... Cape to Queen Charlotte's Sound ; and a Defcription of that Part of the Coaft . CHAP . VI . 371 Tranfactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound : Paffage through the Streight which divides the two Islands , and back to Cape Turn- again : Horrid ...
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... Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the fun and moon , we found the latitude of Cape Finister to be 42 ° 53 ′ North , and its longitude 8 ° 46 ′ West ...
... Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the fun and moon , we found the latitude of Cape Finister to be 42 ° 53 ′ North , and its longitude 8 ° 46 ′ West ...
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... Cape Finister , several birds which have not been described by Linnæus ; they were fuppofed to have come from Spain , and our gentlemen called the species Motacilla velificans , as they said none but failors would venture them- felves ...
... Cape Finister , several birds which have not been described by Linnæus ; they were fuppofed to have come from Spain , and our gentlemen called the species Motacilla velificans , as they said none but failors would venture them- felves ...
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