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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... never have been thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry ...
... never have been thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry ...
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... never goes down to the bottom , nor willingly approaches any fhore ; for the fhell is exceedingly brittle , and that of few fresh water fnails is fo thin : every fhell contains about . a tea - spoonful of liquor , which it easily ...
... never goes down to the bottom , nor willingly approaches any fhore ; for the fhell is exceedingly brittle , and that of few fresh water fnails is fo thin : every fhell contains about . a tea - spoonful of liquor , which it easily ...
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... never objected except when there was a commiffioned officer on board the boat . The petty officer was permitted to go on fhore with his guard , and , having delivered his letter , was told that an answer would be fent the next day ...
... never objected except when there was a commiffioned officer on board the boat . The petty officer was permitted to go on fhore with his guard , and , having delivered his letter , was told that an answer would be fent the next day ...
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... never heard . The country , at a small distance round the town , which is all that any of us faw , is beautiful in the highest degree ; the wildeft fpots being varied with a greater luxuriance of flowers , both as to number and beauty ...
... never heard . The country , at a small distance round the town , which is all that any of us faw , is beautiful in the highest degree ; the wildeft fpots being varied with a greater luxuriance of flowers , both as to number and beauty ...
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... never learn where , or at what distance ; for the fituation is concealed as much as poffible , and troops are continually employed in guarding the roads that lead to them : it is al- moft impoffible for any man to get a fight of them ...
... never learn where , or at what distance ; for the fituation is concealed as much as poffible , and troops are continually employed in guarding the roads that lead to them : it is al- moft impoffible for any man to get a fight of them ...
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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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