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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... eight or ten were visible almost at the fame moment . We were of opinion . that they proceeded from fome luminous animal , and upon throwing out the cafting net our opinion was confirmed : it brought up a species of the Medufa , which ...
... eight or ten were visible almost at the fame moment . We were of opinion . that they proceeded from fome luminous animal , and upon throwing out the cafting net our opinion was confirmed : it brought up a species of the Medufa , which ...
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... an answer would be fent the next day . About eight o'clock this evening it began to blow very hard in fudden gufts from the South , and our long - boat 1768 . November . coming on board juft at this coming 22 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... an answer would be fent the next day . About eight o'clock this evening it began to blow very hard in fudden gufts from the South , and our long - boat 1768 . November . coming on board juft at this coming 22 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... 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 be this depth of water ; but the weeds which grow upon rocky ground in ...
... 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 be this depth of water ; but the weeds which grow upon rocky ground in ...
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... eight o'clock in the evening , but ftill good day - light , and they fet forward for the nearest valley , Mr. Banks him- self undertaking to bring up the rear , and see that no ftrag- gler was left behind : this may perhaps be thought a ...
... eight o'clock in the evening , but ftill good day - light , and they fet forward for the nearest valley , Mr. Banks him- self undertaking to bring up the rear , and see that no ftrag- gler was left behind : this may perhaps be thought a ...
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... eight or ten hours , they were wholly deftitute of provifions , except a vulture , which they happened to shoot : while they were out , and which , if equally divided , would . not afford each of them half a meal ; and they knew not how ...
... eight or ten hours , they were wholly deftitute of provifions , except a vulture , which they happened to shoot : while they were out , and which , if equally divided , would . not afford each of them half a meal ; and they knew not how ...
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