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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... Sunday the 18th and Mon- Sunday 18 . day the 19th of September , we fet fail in prosecution 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 ...
... Sunday the 18th and Mon- Sunday 18 . day the 19th of September , we fet fail in prosecution 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 ...
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... Sunday 2 . This day we found the ship five miles a - head of the log , and the next day feven . On the third , hoifted out the boat to Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of ...
... Sunday 2 . This day we found the ship five miles a - head of the log , and the next day feven . On the third , hoifted out the boat to Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of ...
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... luminous animal , and upon throwing out the cafting net our opinion was confirmed : it brought up a species of the Medufa , which when it came on board 1768 . October . November . Wednes . 2 Sunday ROUND THE WORLD . * 5.
... luminous animal , and upon throwing out the cafting net our opinion was confirmed : it brought up a species of the Medufa , which when it came on board 1768 . October . November . Wednes . 2 Sunday ROUND THE WORLD . * 5.
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... Sunday 6 . Monday 7 . Tuesday 8 . board had the appearance of metal violently heated , and cmitted a white light : with these animals were taken fome very small crabs , of three different fpecies , each of which gave as much light as a ...
... Sunday 6 . Monday 7 . Tuesday 8 . board had the appearance of metal violently heated , and cmitted a white light : with these animals were taken fome very small crabs , of three different fpecies , each of which gave as much light as a ...
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... contents by a tap , the fides being , from the bottom to the top , wholly inacceffible ; neither could any be taken out by dipping a 1768 . November . 1768 . November . Saturday 12 . Sunday 13 . veffel ROUND THE WORLD . 17.
... contents by a tap , the fides being , from the bottom to the top , wholly inacceffible ; neither could any be taken out by dipping a 1768 . November . 1768 . November . Saturday 12 . Sunday 13 . veffel ROUND THE WORLD . 17.
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