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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... taken to introduce fuch fentiments as the events fuggefted to me , and what the materials were from which my work has been drawn up . It has also been said , that with respect to the Voyage , of the Endeavour , I had ftill farther ...
... taken to introduce fuch fentiments as the events fuggefted to me , and what the materials were from which my work has been drawn up . It has also been said , that with respect to the Voyage , of the Endeavour , I had ftill farther ...
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... taken on board , failed down the 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 ...
... taken on board , failed down the 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 ...
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... taken notice ; particularly , a new fpe- cies of the Onifcus , which was found adhering to the Medusa Pelagica ; and an animal of an angular figure , about three paffing quite inches long , and one thick , with a ho they con- through it ...
... taken notice ; particularly , a new fpe- cies of the Onifcus , which was found adhering to the Medusa Pelagica ; and an animal of an angular figure , about three paffing quite inches long , and one thick , with a ho they con- through it ...
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... taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there are but very few of those who traverse the sea , that are either difpofed or ...
... taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there are but very few of those who traverse the sea , that are either difpofed or ...
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... a square wooden vessel , the dimenfions of which are proportioned to the fize of the vineyard to which it belongs ; the fervants then , B 2 1768 . September . 1768 . September . then , having taken off their ROUND THE WORLD . 5.
... a square wooden vessel , the dimenfions of which are proportioned to the fize of the vineyard to which it belongs ; the fervants then , B 2 1768 . September . 1768 . September . then , having taken off their ROUND THE WORLD . 5.
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