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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... rocks , and by the observation of Dr. Heberden , lies in the latitude of 32 ° 33 ′ 33 ′′ N. and lon- gitude 16 ° 49 ′ W. It is fituated in the bottom of a bay , and though larger than the extent of the island seems to deserve , is very ...
... rocks , and by the observation of Dr. Heberden , lies in the latitude of 32 ° 33 ′ 33 ′′ N. and lon- gitude 16 ° 49 ′ W. It is fituated in the bottom of a bay , and though larger than the extent of the island seems to deserve , is very ...
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... rocks which ftretch out S. W. by W. from the body , or S. E. point of the ifland , to the extent of a league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the ...
... rocks which ftretch out S. W. by W. from the body , or S. E. point of the ifland , to the extent of a league and an half . Bona Vista by our obfervation lies in latitude 16 N. and longitude 21 ° 51 ′ Weft . October . Saturday 1 . On the ...
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... rock , fine fand , and fhells ; we therefore fuppofed that we had paffed over the tail of the great fhoal which is laid down in all our charts by the name of Abrothos , on which Lord Anfon ftruck foundings in his paffage outwards : at ...
... rock , fine fand , and fhells ; we therefore fuppofed that we had paffed over the tail of the great fhoal which is laid down in all our charts by the name of Abrothos , on which Lord Anfon ftruck foundings in his paffage outwards : at ...
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... rocks which ran out just to leeward of where we lay : after waiting fome hours in the utmost anxiety , we gave them over for loft , but about three o'clock the next morning had the fatisfaction to see all the Monday 21 . people come on ...
... rocks which ran out just to leeward of where we lay : after waiting fome hours in the utmost anxiety , we gave them over for loft , but about three o'clock the next morning had the fatisfaction to see all the Monday 21 . people come on ...
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... rock that lies close to the main ; the distance between them is about of a mile , but the channel is not quite fo broad , be- cause there are funken rocks which lie off each fort , and in this part alone there is danger : the narrowness ...
... rock that lies close to the main ; the distance between them is about of a mile , but the channel is not quite fo broad , be- cause there are funken rocks which lie off each fort , and in this part alone there is danger : the narrowness ...
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