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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... brought us under our courfes , washed over - board a small 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 ...
... brought us under our courfes , washed over - board a small 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 ...
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... brought to him . It was thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there ...
... brought to him . It was thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there ...
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... brought all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one fort , by engrafting their vines : there feems to be in mind as there is in matter , a kind of vis inertia , which refifts the first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the ...
... brought all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one fort , by engrafting their vines : there feems to be in mind as there is in matter , a kind of vis inertia , which refifts the first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the ...
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... brought to town from the vineyards where it is made , in veffels of goat - fkins , which are carried by men upon their heads . The only imitation of a carriage among these people is a board , made fomewhat hollow in the mid- dle , to ...
... brought to town from the vineyards where it is made , in veffels of goat - fkins , which are carried by men upon their heads . The only imitation of a carriage among these people is a board , made fomewhat hollow in the mid- dle , to ...
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... fome 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.
... fome 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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