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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... half an hour . The hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain ...
... half an hour . The hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain ...
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... half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and longitude 22 ° 10 ' W. we found the variation by a very good azimuth ...
... half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and longitude 22 ° 10 ' W. we found the variation by a very good azimuth ...
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... half the money . The fresh fish , which was bought for about nineteen fhil- lings and fix pence , ferved the whole fhip's company ; the falt was not wanted . The fea provifion of these fishermen confifted of nothing more than a cafk of ...
... half the money . The fresh fish , which was bought for about nineteen fhil- lings and fix pence , ferved the whole fhip's company ; the falt was not wanted . The fea provifion of these fishermen confifted of nothing more than a cafk of ...
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... half a mile from the town . The government here , as to its form , is mixed ; it is not- withstanding very despotic in fact . It confifts of the Viceroy , the Governor of the town , and a council , the number of which I could not learn ...
... half a mile from the town . The government here , as to its form , is mixed ; it is not- withstanding very despotic in fact . It confifts of the Viceroy , the Governor of the town , and a council , the number of which I could not learn ...
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... half from the entrance of the bay , in the 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 ...
... half from the entrance of the bay , in the 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 ...
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