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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... land , with a Defcription of the Fort : CHAP . XI . 99 € The Obfervatory fet up ; the Quadrant ftolen , and Confequences of the Theft : A visit to Tootabah : Defcription of a Wrestling - match : European Seeds fown : Names given to our ...
... land , with a Defcription of the Fort : CHAP . XI . 99 € The Obfervatory fet up ; the Quadrant ftolen , and Confequences of the Theft : A visit to Tootabah : Defcription of a Wrestling - match : European Seeds fown : Names given to our ...
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... Wednef . 31 . feveral of the birds which the failors call Mother Carey's 3 Chickens , 1768 . September . Thursday 1 . Friday 2 . BOOK I CHAP I The Paffage from Plymouth to Madeira, with fome Account of that land Page CHA P II.
... Wednef . 31 . feveral of the birds which the failors call Mother Carey's 3 Chickens , 1768 . September . Thursday 1 . Friday 2 . BOOK I CHAP I The Paffage from Plymouth to Madeira, with fome Account of that land Page CHA P II.
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... land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the fun and moon , we found the latitude of Cape Finister to be 42 ° 53 ′ North , and its longitude 8 ...
... land , between Cape Finifter and Cape Ortegal , on the coast of Gallicia , in Monday 5. Spain ; and on the 5th , by an obfervation of the fun and moon , we found the latitude of Cape Finister to be 42 ° 53 ′ North , and its longitude 8 ...
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... land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these hills are covered with vines to a certain height , above which there are woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various ...
... land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these hills are covered with vines to a certain height , above which there are woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various ...
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... land ; and that there was probably a particular view to the passengers in this pro- hibition , as they were reported to be Gentlemen fent abroad to make obfervations and discoveries , and were uncommonly qualified for that purpose . In ...
... land ; and that there was probably a particular view to the passengers in this pro- hibition , as they were reported to be Gentlemen fent abroad to make obfervations and discoveries , and were uncommonly qualified for that purpose . In ...
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