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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... thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune , and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of lei- fure and cafe , but in the purfuit of his favourite ftudy , through a series of fatigue and danger , which ...
... thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune , and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of lei- fure and cafe , but in the purfuit of his favourite ftudy , through a series of fatigue and danger , which ...
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... thought would improve or embellish the narrative . This was an offer of which I gladly and thankfully accepted : I knew the ad- vantage would be great , for few philofophers have fur- nished materials for accounts of voyages undertaken ...
... thought would improve or embellish the narrative . This was an offer of which I gladly and thankfully accepted : I knew the ad- vantage would be great , for few philofophers have fur- nished materials for accounts of voyages undertaken ...
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... thought to be one animal , but upon being put into a glass of water they soon separated , and swam about very briskly . These animals are of a new genus , to which Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander gave the name of Dagyfa , from the likeness ...
... thought to be one animal , but upon being put into a glass of water they soon separated , and swam about very briskly . These animals are of a new genus , to which Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander gave the name of Dagyfa , from the likeness ...
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... thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto 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 ...
... thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto 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 ...
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... thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo ...
... thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo ...
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An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty ... John Byron,Cook,John Hawkesworth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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