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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... , and which indeed exceeded in variety and brightness any thing that we had ever feen : the colouring and fplendour of these animals were equal to those of of an Opal , and from their refemblance to that 2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... , and which indeed exceeded in variety and brightness any thing that we had ever feen : the colouring and fplendour of these animals were equal to those of of an Opal , and from their refemblance to that 2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... things , a particular defcription of the trees of the island . Mr. Banks enquired after the wood which has been imported into England for cabinet work , and is here called Madeira mahogany : he learnt that no wood was exported from the ...
... things , a particular defcription of the trees of the island . Mr. Banks enquired after the wood which has been imported into England for cabinet work , and is here called Madeira mahogany : he learnt that no wood was exported from the ...
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... thing I could fay , That the restrictions under which he had laid us , were in obedience to the King of Portugal's commands , and therefore indifpenfible . In this fituation I determined , rather than be made a pri- foner in my own boat ...
... thing I could fay , That the restrictions under which he had laid us , were in obedience to the King of Portugal's commands , and therefore indifpenfible . In this fituation I determined , rather than be made a pri- foner in my own boat ...
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... thing else that was on board was loft . On the 23d , the Viceroy , in his an- Wednef . 23. fwer to my remonftrance against seizing my men and de- taining the boat , acknowledged that I had been treated with fome incivility , but faid ...
... thing else that was on board was loft . On the 23d , the Viceroy , in his an- Wednef . 23. fwer to my remonftrance against seizing my men and de- taining the boat , acknowledged that I had been treated with fome incivility , but faid ...
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... things of them for the ship's company ; the porker , which was by no means lean , coft him eleven fhillings , and he paid fome- thing less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when the boats returned from watering , the Sunday 27 ...
... things of them for the ship's company ; the porker , which was by no means lean , coft him eleven fhillings , and he paid fome- thing less than two for a Muscovy duck . On the 27th , when the boats returned from watering , the Sunday 27 ...
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