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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... 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 in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope ...
... 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 in heaving it again , Mr. Weir , the Master's Mate , was carried overboard by the buoy - rope ...
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... person who wanted to drink applied his mouth , and the affiftant then taking his hand from the other , and admitting the air above , the cane immediately parted with its contents , which the drinker drew off till he was fatisfied . We ...
... person who wanted to drink applied his mouth , and the affiftant then taking his hand from the other , and admitting the air above , the cane immediately parted with its contents , which the drinker drew off till he was fatisfied . We ...
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... person except the Captain , and fuch common failors as were required to be upon duty , should be permitted to land ; and that there was probably a particular view to the passengers in this pro- hibition , as they were reported to be ...
... person except the Captain , and fuch common failors as were required to be upon duty , should be permitted to land ; and that there was probably a particular view to the passengers in this pro- hibition , as they were reported to be ...
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... persons we con- jectured to be Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , and therefore they determined to go on fhore no more . On the ift of December , having got our water and other December . neceffaries on board , I fent to the Viceroy for a ...
... persons we con- jectured to be Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks , and therefore they determined to go on fhore no more . On the ift of December , having got our water and other December . neceffaries on board , I fent to the Viceroy for a ...
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... person on board . The east end of this ifland , which from its figure we called the Bow , lies in latitude 18 ° 23 ′ S. and longitude 141 ° 12 ′ W. we observed the varia- tion of the compass to be 5 ° 38 ′ E. up On 1769 . April ...
... person on board . The east end of this ifland , which from its figure we called the Bow , lies in latitude 18 ° 23 ′ S. and longitude 141 ° 12 ′ W. we observed the varia- tion of the compass to be 5 ° 38 ′ E. up On 1769 . April ...
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