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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... 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 16 ° 30 ' Weft . VOL . II . C CHAP . 1768 . September . Wednef . 21 . Friday 23.
... 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 16 ° 30 ' Weft . VOL . II . C CHAP . 1768 . September . Wednef . 21 . Friday 23.
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... bore S. W. at the distance of about five leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the ...
... bore S. W. at the distance of about five leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the ...
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... bore away for it ; and it was more than two hours and an half before we were convinced that it was nothing but what failors call a Fog- bank . The people now beginning to complain of cold , each of them received what is called a ...
... bore away for it ; and it was more than two hours and an half before we were convinced that it was nothing but what failors call a Fog- bank . The people now beginning to complain of cold , each of them received what is called a ...
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... bore all patiently ; but the moment Mr. Banks croffed the river , he fet off with all his family and furniture for his houfe at Eparre . This being quickly known from the Indians at the fort , and great inconvenience being apprehended ...
... bore all patiently ; but the moment Mr. Banks croffed the river , he fet off with all his family and furniture for his houfe at Eparre . This being quickly known from the Indians at the fort , and great inconvenience being apprehended ...
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... bore . The next morning , having ftruck the tents , they fet out on their return , and arrived at the fort before night . The obfervation was made with equal fuccefs by the per- fons whom I had fent to the eastward , and at the fort ...
... bore . The next morning , having ftruck the tents , they fet out on their return , and arrived at the fort before night . The obfervation was made with equal fuccefs by the per- fons whom I had fent to the eastward , and at the fort ...
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