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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... covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage , except where they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt up , which was the ...
... covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage , except where they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt up , which was the ...
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... covered with vines to a certain height , above which there are woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various kinds not known in Europe ; particularly two , called by the Portuguese ...
... covered with vines to a certain height , above which there are woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various kinds not known in Europe ; particularly two , called by the Portuguese ...
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... fat an almost endless variety of birds , especially fmall ones , many of them covered with the most elegant plumage ; among which were the humming- 1768 . December . 1768 . December . bird . Of infects too there bird . ROUND THE WORLD . 3r.
... fat an almost endless variety of birds , especially fmall ones , many of them covered with the most elegant plumage ; among which were the humming- 1768 . December . 1768 . December . bird . Of infects too there bird . ROUND THE WORLD . 3r.
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... covered with the fmall crabs called Cancer vocans ; fome of these had one of the claws , called by naturalists the hand , very large ; others had them both remarkably fmall , and of equal fize , a difference which is faid to distinguish ...
... covered with the fmall crabs called Cancer vocans ; fome of these had one of the claws , called by naturalists the hand , very large ; others had them both remarkably fmall , and of equal fize , a difference which is faid to distinguish ...
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... covered with fea - weed ; but I was told that there was not less than eight and nine fathom over all of them . It will probably be thought strange , that where weeds , which grow at the bottom , appear above the furface , there fhould ...
... covered with fea - weed ; but I was told that there was not less than eight and nine fathom over all of them . It will probably be thought strange , that where weeds , which grow at the bottom , appear above the furface , there fhould ...
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