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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... 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 , our first meridian being always fuppofed to pass through ...
... 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 , our first meridian being always fuppofed to pass through ...
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... Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to the negligence of the person who had been ...
... Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to the negligence of the person who had been ...
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... 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.
... 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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... Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of three quarters of a mile an hour . During our course from Teneriffe to Bona Vista we saw great numbers of flying fish , which from the ...
... Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of three quarters of a mile an hour . During our course from Teneriffe to Bona Vista we saw great numbers of flying fish , which from the ...
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... the N. N.W. W. at the rate of one mile and a furlong an hour . The . variation here , by the mean of several azimuths , appeared to be 8 ° 39 ′ W. 1768 . October . Monday 10 . On the roth 4 Oв 14 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... the N. N.W. W. at the rate of one mile and a furlong an hour . The . variation here , by the mean of several azimuths , appeared to be 8 ° 39 ′ W. 1768 . October . Monday 10 . On the roth 4 Oв 14 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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