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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... morning the anchor was heaved up into the boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope , and went to the bottom with the anchor ; the people ...
... morning the anchor was heaved up into the boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope , and went to the bottom with the anchor ; the people ...
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... morning , having decreased gradually in its deviation for fome days , it was no more than 18 ′ W. and in the afternoon it was 34 Eaft . On the 6th , being in latitude 19 ° 3 ' South , longitude 35 ° 50 Weft , the colour of the water was ...
... morning , having decreased gradually in its deviation for fome days , it was no more than 18 ′ W. and in the afternoon it was 34 Eaft . On the 6th , being in latitude 19 ° 3 ' South , longitude 35 ° 50 Weft , the colour of the water was ...
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... morning made fail for the harbour . I then fent Mr. Hicks , my First Lieutenant , before us in the pinnace , up to the city , to acquaint the Governor , that we put in there to procure water and refreshments ; and to defire the ...
... morning made fail for the harbour . I then fent Mr. Hicks , my First Lieutenant , before us in the pinnace , up to the city , to acquaint the Governor , that we put in there to procure water and refreshments ; and to defire the ...
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... morning had the fatisfaction to see all the Monday 21 . people come on board in the yawl . From them we learnt , that the long - boat having filled with water , they had brought her to a grapling and left her ; and that , having fallen ...
... morning had the fatisfaction to see all the Monday 21 . people come on board in the yawl . From them we learnt , that the long - boat having filled with water , they had brought her to a grapling and left her ; and that , having fallen ...
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... morning of the 15th , I anchored Sunday 15 . in twelve fathom and an half , upon coral rocks , before a fmall cove , which we took for Port Maurice , at the diftance of about half a mile from the fhore . Two of the natives came down to ...
... morning of the 15th , I anchored Sunday 15 . in twelve fathom and an half , upon coral rocks , before a fmall cove , which we took for Port Maurice , at the diftance of about half a mile from the fhore . Two of the natives came down to ...
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