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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... clothes . Some of the convents are in a better taste , efpecially that of the Francifcans , which is plain , fimple , and neat in the highest degree . The infirmary in particular drew our attention as a model which might be adopted in ...
... clothes . Some of the convents are in a better taste , efpecially that of the Francifcans , which is plain , fimple , and neat in the highest degree . The infirmary in particular drew our attention as a model which might be adopted in ...
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... cloth , and it . may perhaps be worth enquiry , as the fhell is certainly found in the Mediterranean , whether it be not the Purpura of the ancients . On the 8th , in latitude 8 ° 25 ' North , longitude 22 ° 4 ' Weft , we found a ...
... cloth , and it . may perhaps be worth enquiry , as the fhell is certainly found in the Mediterranean , whether it be not the Purpura of the ancients . On the 8th , in latitude 8 ° 25 ' North , longitude 22 ° 4 ' Weft , we found a ...
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... clothes upon his back ; and in my answer I requested of his Excellency , that , if fuch an attempt at illicit trade should be repeated , he would without fcruple order the offender to be taken into custody . And thus ended our ...
... clothes upon his back ; and in my answer I requested of his Excellency , that , if fuch an attempt at illicit trade should be repeated , he would without fcruple order the offender to be taken into custody . And thus ended our ...
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... cloth , and canvass , with other European commodities ; they must therefore fome- times travel to the northward , for it is many years fince any ship has been fo far fouth as this part of Terra del Fuego . We observed alfo , that they ...
... cloth , and canvass , with other European commodities ; they must therefore fome- times travel to the northward , for it is many years fince any ship has been fo far fouth as this part of Terra del Fuego . We observed alfo , that they ...
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... cloth , or other useful or neceffary articles , are " to be given in exchange for any thing but provision . CL J. Cook . " As foon as the fhip was properly fecured , I went on fhore with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander , a party of men under ...
... cloth , or other useful or neceffary articles , are " to be given in exchange for any thing but provision . CL J. Cook . " As foon as the fhip was properly fecured , I went on fhore with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander , a party of men under ...
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