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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... four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the ...
... four dozen of our poultry , which we regretted ftill more . On Friday the 2d of September we faw land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the ...
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... four angles . Among the fculls one is very remarkable ; the upper and the lower jaw , on one fide , perfectly and firmly cohere ; how the offification which , unites them was formed , it is not perhaps very easy to conceive , but it is ...
... four angles . Among the fculls one is very remarkable ; the upper and the lower jaw , on one fide , perfectly and firmly cohere ; how the offification which , unites them was formed , it is not perhaps very easy to conceive , but it is ...
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... four hours , without a foot difference in the depth or quality of the bottom , which was coral rock , fine fand , and fhells ; we therefore fuppofed that we had paffed over the tail of the great fhoal which is laid down in all our ...
... four hours , without a foot difference in the depth or quality of the bottom , which was coral rock , fine fand , and fhells ; we therefore fuppofed that we had paffed over the tail of the great fhoal which is laid down in all our ...
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... four pipes of rum , the rope which was thrown to her from the ship , and which was taken hold of by the people on board , unfortunately broke , and the boat , which had come to the fhip before the wind , went adrift to windward of her ...
... four pipes of rum , the rope which was thrown to her from the ship , and which was taken hold of by the people on board , unfortunately broke , and the boat , which had come to the fhip before the wind , went adrift to windward of her ...
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... four days of our ftaying in this harbour , the air was loaded with butter- flies : they were chiefly of one fort , but in fuch numbers that thousands were in view in every direction , and the greatest part of them above our mast - head ...
... four days of our ftaying in this harbour , the air was loaded with butter- flies : they were chiefly of one fort , but in fuch numbers that thousands were in view in every direction , and the greatest part of them above our mast - head ...
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