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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... returned , undiscouraged , from his firft expedition ; and when he found that the Endeavour was equipping for a voyage to the South Seas , in order to obferve the Tranfit of Venus , and afterwards attempt farther discoveries , he ...
... returned , undiscouraged , from his firft expedition ; and when he found that the Endeavour was equipping for a voyage to the South Seas , in order to obferve the Tranfit of Venus , and afterwards attempt farther discoveries , he ...
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... returned on board , about twelve o'clock , where I was impatiently expected by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander , who made no doubt but that a fair account of us having been given by the officers who had been on board the evening before , in ...
... returned on board , about twelve o'clock , where I was impatiently expected by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander , who made no doubt but that a fair account of us having been given by the officers who had been on board the evening before , in ...
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... returned from watering , the Sunday 27 . people told us there was a report in town , that search was making after some perfons who had been on fhore from the ship without the Viceroy's permission ; these persons we con- jectured to be ...
... returned from watering , the Sunday 27 . people told us there was a report in town , that search was making after some perfons who had been on fhore from the ship without the Viceroy's permission ; these persons we con- jectured to be ...
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... is no other way of coming at a fhip's bottom . When the boat which had been fent on fhore returned , we hoifted her on board , and stood out to fea.- CHAP . 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... is no other way of coming at a fhip's bottom . When the boat which had been fent on fhore returned , we hoifted her on board , and stood out to fea.- CHAP . 1 --- a d AView of Part of the N.E. 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... returned , he reported , that there was anchorage in four fathom , and a good bot- tom , close to the eastward of the first bluff point , on the east of Cape St. Vincent , at the very entrance of the cove , to which I gave the name of ...
... returned , he reported , that there was anchorage in four fathom , and a good bot- tom , close to the eastward of the first bluff point , on the east of Cape St. Vincent , at the very entrance of the cove , to which I gave the name of ...
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