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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... River : Marks of fubter- raneous Fire : Preparations for leaving the Ifland : An Account of Tupia . CHAP . XVII .. 172 A particular Defcription of the Island ; its Produce and Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic ...
... River : Marks of fubter- raneous Fire : Preparations for leaving the Ifland : An Account of Tupia . CHAP . XVII .. 172 A particular Defcription of the Island ; its Produce and Inhabitants ; their Dress , Habitations , Food , domeftic ...
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... of the Inhabitants . CHA P. IV . 323 The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands : An Expedition up the River Thames : Some Account of the Indians who inhabit its Banks , and the fine Timber that grows there 5 its CONTENTS .
... of the Inhabitants . CHA P. IV . 323 The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands : An Expedition up the River Thames : Some Account of the Indians who inhabit its Banks , and the fine Timber that grows there 5 its CONTENTS .
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... river on the 30th of July , and on the 13th of Auguft anchored in Plymouth Sound . While we lay here waiting for a wind , the articles of war and the act of parliament were read to the ship's company , who were paid two months wages in ...
... river on the 30th of July , and on the 13th of Auguft anchored in Plymouth Sound . While we lay here waiting for a wind , the articles of war and the act of parliament were read to the ship's company , who were paid two months wages in ...
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... river , trufting to Mr. Bellifle's draught , published in the Petit Atlas maritime , Vol . II . N ° 54 , which we found very good , till five o'clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to ...
... river , trufting to Mr. Bellifle's draught , published in the Petit Atlas maritime , Vol . II . N ° 54 , which we found very good , till five o'clock in the even- ing , expecting the return of my Lieutenant ; and just as I was about to ...
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... river of Januarius , was probably fo called from its having been discovered on the feast - day of that faint ; and the town , which is the capital of the Portu- guese dominions in America , derives its name from the river , which indeed ...
... river of Januarius , was probably fo called from its having been discovered on the feast - day of that faint ; and the town , which is the capital of the Portu- guese dominions in America , derives its name from the river , which indeed ...
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