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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... Produce and Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic Life and Amusements . 184 . CHAP . XVIII .. Of the Manufactures , Boats , and Navigation of Otaheite . IA 210 CHAP .. CHAP . XIX . Of the Divifion of Time in CONTENTS .
... Produce and Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic Life and Amusements . 184 . CHAP . XVIII .. Of the Manufactures , Boats , and Navigation of Otaheite . IA 210 CHAP .. CHAP . XIX . Of the Divifion of Time in CONTENTS .
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... produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent , about two miles from town , we left the thermometer at 74 , and when we arrived at his houfe , we found it at 66. The hills produce , almost ...
... produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent , about two miles from town , we left the thermometer at 74 , and when we arrived at his houfe , we found it at 66. The hills produce , almost ...
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... produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year , clear of all expences , which might easily be doubled by the pro- duct of the island , exclusive of the vines , if advantage was taken of the excellence of the ...
... produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year , clear of all expences , which might easily be doubled by the pro- duct of the island , exclusive of the vines , if advantage was taken of the excellence of the ...
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... produce my commiffion again . His Excellency's fcruples however ftill remained , and in his reply to my letter he not only expreffed them in ftill plainer terms , but accused my people of smug- gling . This charge , I am confident , was ...
... produce my commiffion again . His Excellency's fcruples however ftill remained , and in his reply to my letter he not only expreffed them in ftill plainer terms , but accused my people of smug- gling . This charge , I am confident , was ...
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... produced in thefe fpots , and they are the only fruits that we saw cultivated , though the coun- try produces musk melons , oranges , limes , lemons , fweet lemons , citrons , plantains , bananas , mangos , mamane ap- ples , acajou or ...
... produced in thefe fpots , and they are the only fruits that we saw cultivated , though the coun- try produces musk melons , oranges , limes , lemons , fweet lemons , citrons , plantains , bananas , mangos , mamane ap- ples , acajou or ...
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