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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... discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and Appearance ; fome Account of the Inhabitants , and several Incidents that happened during the Course , and at the Ship's Arrival among them . 69 CHAP . VIII ...
... discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and Appearance ; fome Account of the Inhabitants , and several Incidents that happened during the Course , and at the Ship's Arrival among them . 69 CHAP . VIII ...
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... discovered , which fhone in the water with colours ftill more beautiful and vivid , and which indeed exceeded in variety and brightness any thing that we had ever feen : the colouring and fplendour of these animals were equal to those ...
... discovered , which fhone in the water with colours ftill more beautiful and vivid , and which indeed exceeded in variety and brightness any thing that we had ever feen : the colouring and fplendour of these animals were equal to those ...
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... discovered the islands of Porto Santo and Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to ...
... discovered the islands of Porto Santo and Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to ...
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... discovered on the feast - day of that faint ; and the town , which is the capital of the Portu- guese dominions in America , derives its name from the river , which indeed is rather an arm of the fea , for it did not appear to receive ...
... discovered on the feast - day of that faint ; and the town , which is the capital of the Portu- guese dominions in America , derives its name from the river , which indeed is rather an arm of the fea , for it did not appear to receive ...
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... discovered the coaft of Terra del Fuego , at the distance of about four leagues , extending from the W. to S. E. by S. We had here five and thirty fathom , the ground foft , small flate ftones . As we ranged along the shore to the S. E. ...
... discovered the coaft of Terra del Fuego , at the distance of about four leagues , extending from the W. to S. E. by S. We had here five and thirty fathom , the ground foft , small flate ftones . As we ranged along the shore to the S. E. ...
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