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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... rest of the island appeared of a deep black , the mountain ftill reflected his rays , and glowed with a warmth of colour which no painting can express . There is no eruption of visible fire from it , but a heat iffues from the chinks ...
... rest of the island appeared of a deep black , the mountain ftill reflected his rays , and glowed with a warmth of colour which no painting can express . There is no eruption of visible fire from it , but a heat iffues from the chinks ...
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... rest of the money in piftereens . Their business feemed to be to catch large fish at a good distance from the fhore , which they falted in bulk , in a place made for that purpose in the middle of their boat : of this merchandize they ...
... rest of the money in piftereens . Their business feemed to be to catch large fish at a good distance from the fhore , which they falted in bulk , in a place made for that purpose in the middle of their boat : of this merchandize they ...
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... rest of the face adorned with horizontal streaks of red and black ; yet fcarcely any two were exactly alike . This decoration feems to be more pro- fuse and elaborate upon particular occafions , for the two Gentlemen who introduced Mr ...
... rest of the face adorned with horizontal streaks of red and black ; yet fcarcely any two were exactly alike . This decoration feems to be more pro- fuse and elaborate upon particular occafions , for the two Gentlemen who introduced Mr ...
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... the victor was to be applauded ; feats were also left for us at each end of the line ; but we chose rather to be at liberty among the rest : of the fpectators .. 1769 . May . Friday 5 . When all was I When £ 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... the victor was to be applauded ; feats were also left for us at each end of the line ; but we chose rather to be at liberty among the rest : of the fpectators .. 1769 . May . Friday 5 . When all was I When £ 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... it to be ftolen , he betook himself again to rest , declaring himself perfectly fatisfied with the pains that Tootahah and Oberea S 2 At had 1769 . May . Saturday 27 . 1769 . May . • had taken to recover his ROUND THE WORLD . 133.
... it to be ftolen , he betook himself again to rest , declaring himself perfectly fatisfied with the pains that Tootahah and Oberea S 2 At had 1769 . May . Saturday 27 . 1769 . May . • had taken to recover his ROUND THE WORLD . 133.
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