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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... immediately parted with its contents , which the drinker drew off till he was fatisfied . We stood off and on along the fhore till the 12th , and fucceffively faw a remarkable hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then ...
... immediately parted with its contents , which the drinker drew off till he was fatisfied . We stood off and on along the fhore till the 12th , and fucceffively faw a remarkable hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then ...
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... immediately to an anchor ; and , almost at the fame time , a ten oared boat , full of foldiers , came up and kept rowing round the ship , without exchanging a word : in lefs than a quarter of an hour , another boat came on board with ...
... immediately to an anchor ; and , almost at the fame time , a ten oared boat , full of foldiers , came up and kept rowing round the ship , without exchanging a word : in lefs than a quarter of an hour , another boat came on board with ...
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... immediately be at liberty to go on fhore , and difpofe of themselves as they pleased . Their disappointment at receiving my report may eafily 2 easily be conceived ; and it was ftill increased by 20 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... immediately be at liberty to go on fhore , and difpofe of themselves as they pleased . Their disappointment at receiving my report may eafily 2 easily be conceived ; and it was ftill increased by 20 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... immediately manned and fent to her affift- ance ; but , notwithstanding the utmost effort of the people in both boats , they were very foon out of fight : far indeed we could not fee at that time in the evening , but the distance was ...
... immediately manned and fent to her affift- ance ; but , notwithstanding the utmost effort of the people in both boats , they were very foon out of fight : far indeed we could not fee at that time in the evening , but the distance was ...
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... immediately caft anchor , and fent to the fort to enquire the reason of what had happened : our people brought us word , That the Com- mandant had received no order from the Viceroy to let us pass ; and that , without fuch an order , no ...
... immediately caft anchor , and fent to the fort to enquire the reason of what had happened : our people brought us word , That the Com- mandant had received no order from the Viceroy to let us pass ; and that , without fuch an order , no ...
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