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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... parties joined ; the converfation , fuch as it was , became general ; and three of them accom- panied us back to the fhip . When they came on board , one of them , whom we took to be a prieft , performed much the fame ceremonies which M ...
... parties joined ; the converfation , fuch as it was , became general ; and three of them accom- panied us back to the fhip . When they came on board , one of them , whom we took to be a prieft , performed much the fame ceremonies which M ...
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... party of men under arms , and our friend Owhaw . We were received from the boat by fome hundreds of the inhabitants , whofe looks at leaft gave us welcome , though they were ftruck with fuch awe , that the first who approached us ...
... party of men under arms , and our friend Owhaw . We were received from the boat by fome hundreds of the inhabitants , whofe looks at leaft gave us welcome , though they were ftruck with fuch awe , that the first who approached us ...
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... party of men , and landed without delay , accompanied by Mr. Banks , Dr. Solander , and the aftrono-- mer , Mr. Green . We foon fixed upon a part of the fandy beach , on the N. E. point of the bay , which was in every respect convenient ...
... party of men , and landed without delay , accompanied by Mr. Banks , Dr. Solander , and the aftrono-- mer , Mr. Green . We foon fixed upon a part of the fandy beach , on the N. E. point of the bay , which was in every respect convenient ...
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... party . As we were croffing a little river that lay in our way we faw fome ducks , and Mr. Banks , as foon as he had got over , fired at them , and happened to kill three at one fhot : this ftruck them with the utmost terror , so that ...
... party . As we were croffing a little river that lay in our way we faw fome ducks , and Mr. Banks , as foon as he had got over , fired at them , and happened to kill three at one fhot : this ftruck them with the utmost terror , so that ...
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... party , perhaps from a fudden fear of farther violence , perhaps from the natural petulance of power newly acquired , and perhaps from a brutality in his nature , ordered the ma- rines to fire : the men with as little confideration or ...
... party , perhaps from a fudden fear of farther violence , perhaps from the natural petulance of power newly acquired , and perhaps from a brutality in his nature , ordered the ma- rines to fire : the men with as little confideration or ...
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