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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... Productions . 54 CH A P. VỊ A general Defcription of the fouth eaft Part of Terra del Fuego , and the Streight of Le Maire ; with fome Remarks on Lord Anfon's A 2 Account ( نے Account of them , and Directions for the Paffage Weftward.
... Productions . 54 CH A P. VỊ A general Defcription of the fouth eaft Part of Terra del Fuego , and the Streight of Le Maire ; with fome Remarks on Lord Anfon's A 2 Account ( نے Account of them , and Directions for the Paffage Weftward.
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... Directions for the Paffage Weftward , round this Part of America , into the South Seas . CHAP . VII . 62 The Sequel of the Paffage from Cape Horn to the newly discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and ...
... Directions for the Paffage Weftward , round this Part of America , into the South Seas . CHAP . VII . 62 The Sequel of the Paffage from Cape Horn to the newly discovered Ilands in the South Seas , with a Defcription of their Figure and ...
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... direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d we faw the Peak of Teneriffe bearing W. by S. S. and found the variation of the compass to be from 17 ° 22 ′ to 16 ° 30 ' . The height of this mountain , from which I took a new departure , has ...
... direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d we faw the Peak of Teneriffe bearing W. by S. S. and found the variation of the compass to be from 17 ° 22 ′ to 16 ° 30 ' . The height of this mountain , from which I took a new departure , has ...
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... direction , and the greatest part of them above our mast - head . We lay here from the 14th of November to the 7th of December , fomething more than three weeks , during which . time Mr. Monkhouse , our Surgeon , was on fhore 6 time 26 ...
... direction , and the greatest part of them above our mast - head . We lay here from the 14th of November to the 7th of December , fomething more than three weeks , during which . time Mr. Monkhouse , our Surgeon , was on fhore 6 time 26 ...
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... direction of S. by W .; but the first islands which are met with , coming from the east , or Cape Frio , are two that have a rocky appearance , lying near to each other , and at the distance of about four miles from the shore : there ...
... direction of S. by W .; but the first islands which are met with , coming from the east , or Cape Frio , are two that have a rocky appearance , lying near to each other , and at the distance of about four miles from the shore : there ...
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