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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... Friday 27 . July . ' Saturday 30 . Auguft . Saturday 13 . On Friday the 26th of Auguft , the wind becoming fair , Friday 26 . we got under fail , and put to fea . On the 31ft , we faw Wednef . 31 . feveral of the birds which the failors ...
... Friday 27 . July . ' Saturday 30 . Auguft . Saturday 13 . On Friday the 26th of Auguft , the wind becoming fair , Friday 26 . we got under fail , and put to fea . On the 31ft , we faw Wednef . 31 . feveral of the birds which the failors ...
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... Friday 2 . Chickens , and which they suppose to be the forerunners of a ftorm ; and on the next day we had a very hard gale , which brought us under our courfes , washed over - board a small boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned ...
... Friday 2 . Chickens , and which they suppose to be the forerunners of a ftorm ; and on the next day we had a very hard gale , which brought us under our courfes , washed over - board a small boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned ...
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... of Monday 19 . our voyage . When Funchiale bore North , 13 East , at the distance of 76 miles , the variation appeared by feveral azimuths to be 16 ° 30 ' Weft . VOL . II . C CHAP . 1768 . September . Wednef . 21 . Friday 23.
... of Monday 19 . our voyage . When Funchiale bore North , 13 East , at the distance of 76 miles , the variation appeared by feveral azimuths to be 16 ° 30 ' Weft . VOL . II . C CHAP . 1768 . September . Wednef . 21 . Friday 23.
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... Friday 23 . CHAP . II . The Paffage from Madeira to Rio de Janeiro , with fome account of the Country , and the Incidents that happened there . ON 1 ལ N the 21ft of September we faw the iflands called the Salvages , to the north of the ...
... Friday 23 . CHAP . II . The Paffage from Madeira to Rio de Janeiro , with fome account of the Country , and the Incidents that happened there . ON 1 ལ N the 21ft of September we faw the iflands called the Salvages , to the north of the ...
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... Friday the 30th faw Bona Vista , Friday 30 . one of the Cape de Verd Islands ; we ranged the caft fide of it , at the distance of three or four miles from the fhore , till we were obliged to haul off to avoid a ledge of rocks which ...
... Friday the 30th faw Bona Vista , Friday 30 . one of the Cape de Verd Islands ; we ranged the caft fide of it , at the distance of three or four miles from the fhore , till we were obliged to haul off to avoid a ledge of rocks which ...
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