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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... five days on fhore ; one of which they spent at home , in receiving the honour of a vifit from the governor . The season was the worst in the year for their purpose , as it was neither that of plants nor infects ; a few of the plants ...
... five days on fhore ; one of which they spent at home , in receiving the honour of a vifit from the governor . The season was the worst in the year for their purpose , as it was neither that of plants nor infects ; a few of the plants ...
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... five leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d ...
... five leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d ...
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... five miles a - head of the log , and the next day feven . On the third , hoifted out the boat to Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of three quarters of a mile an hour . During ...
... five miles a - head of the log , and the next day feven . On the third , hoifted out the boat to Monday 3 , discover whether there was a current , and found one to the eastward , at the rate of three quarters of a mile an hour . During ...
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... five o'clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to anchor , above the island of Cobras , which lies be- fore fore the city , the pinnace came back without him 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... five o'clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to anchor , above the island of Cobras , which lies be- fore fore the city , the pinnace came back without him 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... five and ten ree pieces . A ree is a nominal coin of Portugal , ten of which are equal in value to about three farthings fterling . The harbour of Rio de Janeiro is fituated W. by N. 18 leagues from Cape Frio , and may be known by a ...
... five and ten ree pieces . A ree is a nominal coin of Portugal , ten of which are equal in value to about three farthings fterling . The harbour of Rio de Janeiro is fituated W. by N. 18 leagues from Cape Frio , and may be known by a ...
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