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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... Chiefs . C.H A P. IX . 79 A Place fixed upon for an Obfervatory and Fort : an Excurfion into the Woods , and its Confequences . The Fort erected : a Vifit from feveral Chiefs on Board and at the Fort , with fome Account of the Mufic of ...
... Chiefs . C.H A P. IX . 79 A Place fixed upon for an Obfervatory and Fort : an Excurfion into the Woods , and its Confequences . The Fort erected : a Vifit from feveral Chiefs on Board and at the Fort , with fome Account of the Mufic of ...
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... purpose , as it was neither that of plants nor infects ; a few of the plants , how- ever , were procured in flower , by the kind attention of Dr. Heberden , Heberden , the chief physician of the island , and 4 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... purpose , as it was neither that of plants nor infects ; a few of the plants , how- ever , were procured in flower , by the kind attention of Dr. Heberden , Heberden , the chief physician of the island , and 4 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... chief physician of the island , and brother to Dr. Heberden of London , who alfo gave them such speci- mens as he had in his possession , and a copy of his Botanical Obfervations ; containing , among other things , a particular ...
... chief physician of the island , and brother to Dr. Heberden of London , who alfo gave them such speci- mens as he had in his possession , and a copy of his Botanical Obfervations ; containing , among other things , a particular ...
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... chief part of which Mr. Banks bought , confifted of dol- phins , large pelagic fcombers of two kinds , fea bream , and fome of the fifh which in the West Indies are called Welsh- men . Mr. Banks had taken Spanish filver with him , which ...
... chief part of which Mr. Banks bought , confifted of dol- phins , large pelagic fcombers of two kinds , fea bream , and fome of the fifh which in the West Indies are called Welsh- men . Mr. Banks had taken Spanish filver with him , which ...
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... Chiefs . A 1769 . April . BOUT one o'clock , on Monday the 10th of April , fome of the people who were looking out for the island to which we were bound , faid they faw land ahead , in that Monday 10 . part of the horizon where it was ...
... Chiefs . A 1769 . April . BOUT one o'clock , on Monday the 10th of April , fome of the people who were looking out for the island to which we were bound , faid they faw land ahead , in that Monday 10 . part of the horizon where it was ...
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