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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... the 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 .
... the 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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... body , or S. E. point of the ifland , to the extent of a league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and ...
... body , or S. E. point of the ifland , to the extent of a league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and ...
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... body to the fea , with as much decency and folemnity as our circumstances and fituation would admit . In the forenoon of this day we received a vifit from Tu- bourai Tamaide and Tootahah , our Chiefs , from the West : they brought with ...
... body to the fea , with as much decency and folemnity as our circumstances and fituation would admit . In the forenoon of this day we received a vifit from Tu- bourai Tamaide and Tootahah , our Chiefs , from the West : they brought with ...
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... body of the man who had been fhot at the tents , which he faid was wrapped : in cloth , and placed on a kind of bier , fupported by stakes , under a roof that feemed to have been fet up for the pur- 1769 . April . Wednef . 19 . 1769 ...
... body of the man who had been fhot at the tents , which he faid was wrapped : in cloth , and placed on a kind of bier , fupported by stakes , under a roof that feemed to have been fet up for the pur- 1769 . April . Wednef . 19 . 1769 ...
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... body , which was into- lerable . He faid , that he faw alfo two more fheds of the fame kind , in one of which were the bones of a human body that had lain till they were quite dry . We discovered afterwards , that this was the way in ...
... body , which was into- lerable . He faid , that he faw alfo two more fheds of the fame kind , in one of which were the bones of a human body that had lain till they were quite dry . We discovered afterwards , that this was the way in ...
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