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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... fish and gather shells , which time would not have permitted them to collect for themfelves ; and he provided horses and guides to take them to any part of the country which they should chufe to vifit . With all these advantages ...
... fish and gather shells , which time would not have permitted them to collect for themfelves ; and he provided horses and guides to take them to any part of the country which they should chufe to vifit . With all these advantages ...
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... fish , which from the cabbin win- dows appear beautiful beyond imagination , their fides hav- ing the colour and brightness of burnished silver ; when they are seen from the deck they do not appear to fo much advantage , because their ...
... fish , which from the cabbin win- dows appear beautiful beyond imagination , their fides hav- ing the colour and brightness of burnished silver ; when they are seen from the deck they do not appear to fo much advantage , because their ...
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... fishes , from the bottom of which defcended a number of ftrings , of a bright blue and red , some of them three or four feet in length , which upon being touched fting like a nettle , but with much more force . On the top of the bladder ...
... fishes , from the bottom of which defcended a number of ftrings , of a bright blue and red , some of them three or four feet in length , which upon being touched fting like a nettle , but with much more force . On the top of the bladder ...
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... fish , which agitated the water by darting at their prey , fome by the pu- trefaction of fish and other marine animals , fome by elec- tricity , and others referring it into a great variety of diffe- rent causes . It appeared to emit ...
... fish , which agitated the water by darting at their prey , fome by the pu- trefaction of fish and other marine animals , fome by elec- tricity , and others referring it into a great variety of diffe- rent causes . It appeared to emit ...
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... fhould be well received . On the 8th , at day - break , we faw the coaft of Brazil , and about ten o'clock we brought to , and spoke with a fishing- boat ; boat ; the people on board told us that the 8 16 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... fhould be well received . On the 8th , at day - break , we faw the coaft of Brazil , and about ten o'clock we brought to , and spoke with a fishing- boat ; boat ; the people on board told us that the 8 16 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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