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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... kind of herbage , except where they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt up , which was the cafe at this time . On the 13th , about eleven o'clock in the forenoon , a boat , which our failors ...
... kind of herbage , except where they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt up , which was the cafe at this time . On the 13th , about eleven o'clock in the forenoon , a boat , which our failors ...
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... kind of vis inertia , which refifts the first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the artificer or the hufbandman by a new application of the principles of philosophy , or the powers of mechanifm , will find , that his having ...
... kind of vis inertia , which refifts the first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the artificer or the hufbandman by a new application of the principles of philosophy , or the powers of mechanifm , will find , that his having ...
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... fick may be feparately supplied with whatever they want without dif- turbing their neighbours . In this convent there is alfo a fingular 3 fingular curiosity of another kind ; a small chapel , 8 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... fick may be feparately supplied with whatever they want without dif- turbing their neighbours . In this convent there is alfo a fingular 3 fingular curiosity of another kind ; a small chapel , 8 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... kind ; a small chapel , the whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the ...
... kind ; a small chapel , the whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the ...
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... kind of apology for detaining my Lieutenant , and putting an officer on board my pinnace , that it was the invariable custom of the place , to detain the first officer who came on shore from any ship on her arrival , till a boat from ...
... kind of apology for detaining my Lieutenant , and putting an officer on board my pinnace , that it was the invariable custom of the place , to detain the first officer who came on shore from any ship on her arrival , till a boat from ...
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