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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... night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to the negligence of the person who had been employed to make it fast . In the morning the anchor was heaved up into the boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but ...
... night , the bend of the hawfer of the stream - anchor flipped , owing to the negligence of the person who had been employed to make it fast . In the morning the anchor was heaved up into the boat , and carried out to the fouthward ; but ...
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... night , between Sunday the 18th and Mon- Sunday 18 . day the 19th of September , we fet fail in prosecution of Monday 19 . our voyage . When Funchiale bore North , 13 East , at the distance of 76 miles , the variation appeared by ...
... night , between Sunday the 18th and Mon- Sunday 18 . day the 19th of September , we fet fail in prosecution of Monday 19 . our voyage . When Funchiale bore North , 13 East , at the distance of 76 miles , the variation appeared by ...
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... night , all the boys of a certain age were obliged to affift , the fons of Gentlemen not being excufed . Each of these boys was dreffed in a black caffock , with a short red cloak , hanging about as low as the waist , and carried in his ...
... night , all the boys of a certain age were obliged to affift , the fons of Gentlemen not being excufed . Each of these boys was dreffed in a black caffock , with a short red cloak , hanging about as low as the waist , and carried in his ...
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... night . The people indeed are by no means re- mifs in their devotions , for before these saints they pray and fing hymns with fuch vehemence , that in the night they were very distinctly heard on board the ship , though she lay at the ...
... night . The people indeed are by no means re- mifs in their devotions , for before these saints they pray and fing hymns with fuch vehemence , that in the night they were very distinctly heard on board the ship , though she lay at the ...
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... night . The hills , when viewed at a distance , seemed to be partly a wood , partly a plain , and above them a bare rock . Mr. Banks hoped to get through the wood , and made no doubt , but that , beyond it , he fhould , in a country ...
... night . The hills , when viewed at a distance , seemed to be partly a wood , partly a plain , and above them a bare rock . Mr. Banks hoped to get through the wood , and made no doubt , but that , beyond it , he fhould , in a country ...
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