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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... Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahah and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . C.H A P. IX . 79 A Place fixed upon for an Obfervatory and Fort : an Excurfion into the Woods , and its ...
... Natives , and an Account of several Incidents which happened in a Vifit to Tootahah and Toubourai Tamaida , two Chiefs . C.H A P. IX . 79 A Place fixed upon for an Obfervatory and Fort : an Excurfion into the Woods , and its ...
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... natives Vigniatico , the Laurus indicus of Linnæus , the wood of which cannot eafily be distinguished from mahogany . Dr. Heberden has a book - cafe in which the vigniatico and mahogany are mixed , and they are no otherwife to be known ...
... natives Vigniatico , the Laurus indicus of Linnæus , the wood of which cannot eafily be distinguished from mahogany . Dr. Heberden has a book - cafe in which the vigniatico and mahogany are mixed , and they are no otherwife to be known ...
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... natives both of the Eaft and Weft In- dies , particularly the banana , the guava , the pine - apple or anana , and the mango , which flourish almoft without cul- The corn of this country is of a moft excellent qua- lity , large grained ...
... natives both of the Eaft and Weft In- dies , particularly the banana , the guava , the pine - apple or anana , and the mango , which flourish almoft without cul- The corn of this country is of a moft excellent qua- lity , large grained ...
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... natives , probably as a signal , for they did not continue it after we had paffed by . This day we discovered that ... native of Portugal , and his name , in the language of his country , was Fernando de Magalhaens ; the Spa- niards call ...
... natives , probably as a signal , for they did not continue it after we had paffed by . This day we discovered that ... native of Portugal , and his name , in the language of his country , was Fernando de Magalhaens ; the Spa- niards call ...
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... natives came down to the beach , expecting us to land ; but this spot afforded fo little shelter , that I at length determined not to examine it : I therefore got under fail again about ten o'clock , and the favages retired into the ...
... natives came down to the beach , expecting us to land ; but this spot afforded fo little shelter , that I at length determined not to examine it : I therefore got under fail again about ten o'clock , and the favages retired into the ...
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