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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... anchor up with all poffible expedition ; it was however too late , the body came up intangled in the buoy - rope , but it was dead . VOL . II . When B 1768 . September . Tuesday 13 . When the island ROUND THE WORLD .
... anchor up with all poffible expedition ; it was however too late , the body came up intangled in the buoy - rope , but it was dead . VOL . II . When B 1768 . September . Tuesday 13 . When the island ROUND THE WORLD .
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... Tuesday 13 . When the island of Madeira is first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green ...
... Tuesday 13 . When the island of Madeira is first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green ...
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... Tuesday 25 . in longitude 29 ° 30 ′ , when , by the result of several very good azimuths , the variation was 2 ° 24 . On the 28th , at noon , being in the latitude of Ferdinand Friday 28 . Noronha , and , by the mean of several ...
... Tuesday 25 . in longitude 29 ° 30 ′ , when , by the result of several very good azimuths , the variation was 2 ° 24 . On the 28th , at noon , being in the latitude of Ferdinand Friday 28 . Noronha , and , by the mean of several ...
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... 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 glow - worm , though ...
... 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 glow - worm , though ...
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... Tuesday 3 . Wednef . 11 . ran a course of one hundred and fixty miles by the log , through innumerable land infects of various kinds , fome upon the wing , and more upon the water , many of which were alive ; they appeared to be exactly ...
... Tuesday 3 . Wednef . 11 . ran a course of one hundred and fixty miles by the log , through innumerable land infects of various kinds , fome upon the wing , and more upon the water , many of which were alive ; they appeared to be exactly ...
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