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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... lies in the latitude of 32 ° 33 ′ 33 ′′ N. and lon- gitude 16 ° 49 ′ W. It is fituated in the bottom of a bay , and though larger than the extent of the island seems to deserve , is very ill built ; the houses of the principal ...
... lies in the latitude of 32 ° 33 ′ 33 ′′ N. and lon- gitude 16 ° 49 ′ W. It is fituated in the bottom of a bay , and though larger than the extent of the island seems to deserve , is very ill built ; the houses of the principal ...
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... 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 good azimuth to be 10 ° 37 ′ W. and the next ...
... 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 good azimuth to be 10 ° 37 ′ W. and the next ...
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... clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to anchor , above the island of Cobras , which lies be- fore fore the city , the pinnace came back without him 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to anchor , above the island of Cobras , which lies be- fore fore the city , the pinnace came back without him 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... lie before it ; one of which , called Rodonda , is high and round like a hay - ftack , and lies at the distance of two leagues and an half from the entrance of the bay , in the direction of S. by W .; but the first islands which are met ...
... lie before it ; one of which , called Rodonda , is high and round like a hay - ftack , and lies at the distance of two leagues and an half from the entrance of the bay , in the direction of S. by W .; but the first islands which are met ...
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... lies before the city : she should then keep the north fide of this island close on board , and anchor above it , before a monastery of Benedictines which stands upon a hill at the N. W. end of the city . The river , and indeed the whole ...
... lies before the city : she should then keep the north fide of this island close on board , and anchor above it , before a monastery of Benedictines which stands upon a hill at the N. W. end of the city . The river , and indeed the whole ...
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