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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... must not only make a provision , but compel them to accept it , or else they will be still found begging in the streets . It was therefore with great difficulty that the people of Madeira were perfuaded to engraft their vines , and fome ...
... must not only make a provision , but compel them to accept it , or else they will be still found begging in the streets . It was therefore with great difficulty that the people of Madeira were perfuaded to engraft their vines , and fome ...
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... must have lived fome time without opening his mouth : what nourishment he received was conveyed through a hole- which we difcovered to have been made on the other fide ,. by forcing out fome of the teeth , in doing which the jaw alfo ...
... must have lived fome time without opening his mouth : what nourishment he received was conveyed through a hole- which we difcovered to have been made on the other fide ,. by forcing out fome of the teeth , in doing which the jaw alfo ...
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... must drive directly upon a reef of rocks which ran out just to leeward of where we lay : after waiting fome hours in the utmost anxiety , we gave them over for loft , but about three o'clock the next morning had the fatisfaction to see ...
... must drive directly upon a reef of rocks which ran out just to leeward of where we lay : after waiting fome hours in the utmost anxiety , we gave them over for loft , but about three o'clock the next morning had the fatisfaction to see ...
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... must first take fome fleep , though he had before told the company that to fleep was to perish . Mr. Banks and the reft found it impoffible to carry them , and there being no remedy they were both fuffered to fit down , being partly ...
... must first take fome fleep , though he had before told the company that to fleep was to perish . Mr. Banks and the reft found it impoffible to carry them , and there being no remedy they were both fuffered to fit down , being partly ...
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... must therefore fome- times travel to the northward , for it is many years fince any ship has been fo far fouth as this part of Terra del Fuego . We observed alfo , that they fhewed no surprise at our fire- arms , with the use of which ...
... must therefore fome- times travel to the northward , for it is many years fince any ship has been fo far fouth as this part of Terra del Fuego . We observed alfo , that they fhewed no surprise at our fire- arms , with the use of which ...
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An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty ... John Byron,Cook,John Hawkesworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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