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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... less brown in the vigniatico than the mahogany ; it is therefore in the highest degree pro- bable , that the wood known in England by the name of Madeira mahogany , is the vigniatico . There is great reason to fuppofe that this whole ...
... less brown in the vigniatico than the mahogany ; it is therefore in the highest degree pro- bable , that the wood known in England by the name of Madeira mahogany , is the vigniatico . There is great reason to fuppofe that this whole ...
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... respect to their chefnut - trees an object of much less impor- tance , which , however , are thus brought to bear fooner than they would otherwife have done . We We faw no wheel - carriages of any fort in 6 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... respect to their chefnut - trees an object of much less impor- tance , which , however , are thus brought to bear fooner than they would otherwife have done . We We faw no wheel - carriages of any fort in 6 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... less than three miles , reckoning the mile at 1760 yards . Its appearance at funfet was very striking ; when the fun was below the horizon , and the rest of the island appeared of a deep black , the mountain ftill reflected his rays ...
... less than three miles , reckoning the mile at 1760 yards . Its appearance at funfet was very striking ; when the fun was below the horizon , and the rest of the island appeared of a deep black , the mountain ftill reflected his rays ...
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... less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when the boats returned from watering , the Sunday 27 . people told us there was a report in town , that search was making after some perfons who had been on fhore from the ship without ...
... less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when the boats returned from watering , the Sunday 27 . people told us there was a report in town , that search was making after some perfons who had been on fhore from the ship without ...
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... less than forty thousand negroes are annually imported , on the king's ac- count , to dig the mines ; and we were credibly informed , that , the last year but one before we arrived here , this num- ber fell fo short , probably from fome ...
... less than forty thousand negroes are annually imported , on the king's ac- count , to dig the mines ; and we were credibly informed , that , the last year but one before we arrived here , this num- ber fell fo short , probably from fome ...
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