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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... house of Mr. Cheap , who is the English conful there , and one of the moft confiderable merchants of the place . This gentleman . received us with the kindness of a brother , and the liberality of a prince ; he infifted upon our taking ...
... house of Mr. Cheap , who is the English conful there , and one of the moft confiderable merchants of the place . This gentleman . received us with the kindness of a brother , and the liberality of a prince ; he infifted upon our taking ...
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... houses of the principal inhabitants are large , thofe of the common people are small , the streets are narrow , and worfe paved than any I ever faw . The churches are loaded with ornaments , among which are many pic- tures , and images ...
... houses of the principal inhabitants are large , thofe of the common people are small , the streets are narrow , and worfe paved than any I ever faw . The churches are loaded with ornaments , among which are many pic- tures , and images ...
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... house duties produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year , clear of all expences , which might easily be doubled by the pro- duct of the island , exclusive of the vines , if advantage was taken of the ...
... house duties produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year , clear of all expences , which might easily be doubled by the pro- duct of the island , exclusive of the vines , if advantage was taken of the ...
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... houses , and he bought a porker and fome other things of them for the ship's company ; the porker , which was by no means lean , coft him eleven fhillings , and he paid fome- thing less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when ...
... houses , and he bought a porker and fome other things of them for the ship's company ; the porker , which was by no means lean , coft him eleven fhillings , and he paid fome- thing less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when ...
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... houses , in general , are of stone , and two stories high ; every house having , after the manner of the Portuguese , a little balcony before its windows , and a lattice of wood before the balcony . I computed its circuit to be about ...
... houses , in general , are of stone , and two stories high ; every house having , after the manner of the Portuguese , a little balcony before its windows , and a lattice of wood before the balcony . I computed its circuit to be about ...
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