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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... Otaheite , called by Captain Wallis , King George the III's Ifland . Rules eftablished for Traffic with the Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahah and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . C.H A P ...
... Otaheite , called by Captain Wallis , King George the III's Ifland . Rules eftablished for Traffic with the Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahah and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . C.H A P ...
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... Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic Life and Amusements . 184 . CHAP . XVIII .. Of the Manufactures , Boats , and Navigation of Otaheite . IA 210 CHAP .. CHAP . XIX . Of the Divifion of Time in CONTENTS .
... Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic Life and Amusements . 184 . CHAP . XVIII .. Of the Manufactures , Boats , and Navigation of Otaheite . IA 210 CHAP .. CHAP . XIX . Of the Divifion of Time in CONTENTS .
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... Otaheite ; Numeration , Computation of Diftance , Language , Difeafes , Difpofal of the Dead , Religion , War , Weapons , and Government ; with fome general Obfervations for the Ufe of future Navigators . CHAP . XX . 227 A Defcription ...
... Otaheite ; Numeration , Computation of Diftance , Language , Difeafes , Difpofal of the Dead , Religion , War , Weapons , and Government ; with fome general Obfervations for the Ufe of future Navigators . CHAP . XX . 227 A Defcription ...
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... Otaheite , called by Captain Wallis , King George the III.'s Ifland . Rules established for Traffic with the Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahab and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . A 1769 ...
... Otaheite , called by Captain Wallis , King George the III.'s Ifland . Rules established for Traffic with the Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahab and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . A 1769 ...
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... Otaheite . As the day of obfervation now approached , I determined , in confequence of fome hints which had been given me by Lord Morton , to fend out two parties to obferve the tranfit from other fituations ; hoping , that if we should ...
... Otaheite . As the day of obfervation now approached , I determined , in confequence of fome hints which had been given me by Lord Morton , to fend out two parties to obferve the tranfit from other fituations ; hoping , that if we should ...
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