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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... Island , and various Inci- dents that happened during the Expedition ; with a Defcription of a Burying - place and Place of Worship , called a Morai . CHA P. XVI : 155 An Expedition of Mr. Banks to trace the River : Marks of fubter ...
... Island , and various Inci- dents that happened during the Expedition ; with a Defcription of a Burying - place and Place of Worship , called a Morai . CHA P. XVI : 155 An Expedition of Mr. Banks to trace the River : Marks of fubter ...
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... islands of Porto Santo and Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped ... island ROUND THE WORLD .
... islands of Porto Santo and Monday 12 . Madeira , and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road , and moored with the stream - anchor : but , in the night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped ... island ROUND THE WORLD .
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... island of Madeira is first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of ...
... island of Madeira is first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of ...
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... island . Mr. Banks enquired after the wood which has been imported into England for cabinet work , and is here called Madeira mahogany : he learnt that no wood was exported from the island under that name , but he found a tree called by ...
... island . Mr. Banks enquired after the wood which has been imported into England for cabinet work , and is here called Madeira mahogany : he learnt that no wood was exported from the island under that name , but he found a tree called by ...
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... island is supposed to be about 80,000 , and the custom - 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 ...
... island is supposed to be about 80,000 , and the custom - 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 ...
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