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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... Solander to accompany him in the voyage . This Gentleman , by birth a Swede , was educated under the celebrated Linnæus , from whom he brought letters of recommendation into England , and his merit , being foon known , he obtained an ...
... Solander to accompany him in the voyage . This Gentleman , by birth a Swede , was educated under the celebrated Linnæus , from whom he brought letters of recommendation into England , and his merit , being foon known , he obtained an ...
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... Solander had an opportunity of obferving many marine animals , of which no naturalift has hitherto taken notice ; particularly , a new fpe- cies of the Onifcus , which was found adhering to the Medusa Pelagica ; and an animal of an ...
... Solander had an opportunity of obferving many marine animals , of which no naturalift has hitherto taken notice ; particularly , a new fpe- cies of the Onifcus , which was found adhering to the Medusa Pelagica ; and an animal of an ...
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... Solander to fearch the island for fuch natural curiofities as they fhould think worth their notice ; employed perfons to take fish and gather shells , which time would not have permitted them to collect for themfelves ; and he provided ...
... Solander to fearch the island for fuch natural curiofities as they fhould think worth their notice ; employed perfons to take fish and gather shells , which time would not have permitted them to collect for themfelves ; and he provided ...
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... Solander went on board this veffel , in which they found eleven men , nine of whom were Blacks ; they all fifhed with lines , and their fresh cargo , the chief part of which Mr. Banks bought , confifted of dol- phins , large pelagic ...
... Solander went on board this veffel , in which they found eleven men , nine of whom were Blacks ; they all fifhed with lines , and their fresh cargo , the chief part of which Mr. Banks bought , confifted of dol- phins , large pelagic ...
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... Solander , who made no doubt but that a fair account of us having been given by the officers who had been on board the evening before , in their paper called a Practica , and every fcruple of the Viceroy removed in my conference with ...
... Solander , who made no doubt but that a fair account of us having been given by the officers who had been on board the evening before , in their paper called a Practica , and every fcruple of the Viceroy removed in my conference with ...
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