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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... leagues from Cape Finister , several birds which have not been described by Linnæus ; they were fuppofed to have come from Spain , and our gentlemen called the species Motacilla velificans , as they said none but failors would venture ...
... leagues from Cape Finister , several birds which have not been described by Linnæus ; they were fuppofed to have come from Spain , and our gentlemen called the species Motacilla velificans , as they said none but failors would venture ...
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... leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d we faw ...
... leagues we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17o 50. I make these islands to lie in latitude 30 ° 11 ' North , and distant 58 leagues from Funchiale in Madeira , in the direction of S. 16 E. On Friday the 23d we faw ...
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... league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and longitude 22 ° 10 ' W. we found the variation by a very ...
... league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the rft of October , in latitude 14 ° 6 ′ N. and longitude 22 ° 10 ' W. we found the variation by a very ...
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... leagues from Cape Frio , and may be known by a remark- able hill , in the form of a fugar - loaf , at the west point of the bay ; but as all the coaft is very high , and rises in many peaks , the entrance of this harbour may be more ...
... leagues from Cape Frio , and may be known by a remark- able hill , in the form of a fugar - loaf , at the west point of the bay ; but as all the coaft is very high , and rises in many peaks , the entrance of this harbour may be more ...
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... league ; this will bring the vessel the length of the great road ; and N.W. and W. N.W. one league more will carry her to the Ifle dos Cobras , which lies before the city : she should then keep the north fide of this island close on ...
... league ; this will bring the vessel the length of the great road ; and N.W. and W. N.W. one league more will carry her to the Ifle dos Cobras , which lies before the city : she should then keep the north fide of this island close on ...
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