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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... piece . The papers of Captain Cook contained a very particular account of all the nautical incidents of the voyage , and a very minute defcription of the figure and extent of the countries he had vifited , with the bearings of the head ...
... piece . The papers of Captain Cook contained a very particular account of all the nautical incidents of the voyage , and a very minute defcription of the figure and extent of the countries he had vifited , with the bearings of the head ...
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... piece of wood , which is preffed down upon them by a lever with a stone tied to the end of it . The inhabitants have made fo little improvement in knowlege or art , that they have but very lately brought all the fruit of a vineyard to ...
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... piece of the fame skin , which is drawn over their feet , and gathered about the ancles like a purfe , and a fmall flap , which is worn by the women as a fuccedaneum for a fig leaf . The men wear their cloak open , the women tie it ...
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... piece of feal - fkin into tobacco pouches : he had promised one to several of the men , but had refufed one to this young fellow , though he had asked him several times ; upon which he jocularly threatened to steal one , if it should be ...
... piece of feal - fkin into tobacco pouches : he had promised one to several of the men , but had refufed one to this young fellow , though he had asked him several times ; upon which he jocularly threatened to steal one , if it should be ...
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... piece of the skin , which the other miffing at his return , grew angry ; but after fome altercation , contented himself with taking it away , de- claring , that , for fo trifling an affair , he would not complain of him to the officers ...
... piece of the skin , which the other miffing at his return , grew angry ; but after fome altercation , contented himself with taking it away , de- claring , that , for fo trifling an affair , he would not complain of him to the officers ...
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