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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... boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned three or four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday ...
... boat belonging to the Boatfwain , and drowned three or four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday ...
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... boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope , and went to the bottom with the anchor ; the people in the fhip faw the accident , and got the ...
... boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope , and went to the bottom with the anchor ; the people in the fhip faw the accident , and got the ...
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... boat , which our failors call the product boat , came on board from the officers of health ,, without whofe permiffion no perfon is fuffered to land from on board a fhip . As foon as this per- miffion was obtained , we went on fhore at ...
... boat , which our failors call the product boat , came on board from the officers of health ,, without whofe permiffion no perfon is fuffered to land from on board a fhip . As foon as this per- miffion was obtained , we went on fhore at ...
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... boat to 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 ...
... boat to 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 ...
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