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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... told that they were to expect no additional pay for the performance of the voyage . 1768 . May . Friday 27 . July . ' Saturday 30 . Auguft . Saturday 13 . On Friday the 26th of Auguft , the wind becoming fair , Friday 26 . we got under ...
... told that they were to expect no additional pay for the performance of the voyage . 1768 . May . Friday 27 . July . ' Saturday 30 . Auguft . Saturday 13 . On Friday the 26th of Auguft , the wind becoming fair , Friday 26 . we got under ...
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... be well received . On the 8th , at day - break , we faw the coaft of Brazil , and about ten o'clock we brought to , and spoke with a fishing- boat ; boat ; the people on board told us that the 8 16 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... be well received . On the 8th , at day - break , we faw the coaft of Brazil , and about ten o'clock we brought to , and spoke with a fishing- boat ; boat ; the people on board told us that the 8 16 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... told us that the land which we faw , lay to the fouthward of Sancto Espirito , but belonged to the captainship of that place . Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went on board this veffel , in which they found eleven men , nine of whom were ...
... told us that the land which we faw , lay to the fouthward of Sancto Espirito , but belonged to the captainship of that place . Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went on board this veffel , in which they found eleven men , nine of whom were ...
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... told me , that my Lieutenant was detained by the Viceroy till I should go on fhore . We came immediately to an anchor ; and , almost at the fame time , a ten oared boat , full of foldiers , came up and kept rowing round the ship ...
... told me , that my Lieutenant was detained by the Viceroy till I should go on fhore . We came immediately to an anchor ; and , almost at the fame time , a ten oared boat , full of foldiers , came up and kept rowing round the ship ...
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... told him , that we were bound to the fouthward , by the order of his Britannic Ma- jesty , to observe a tranfit of the planet Venus over the Sun , an aftronomical phænomenon of great importance to navi- gation . Of the tranfit of Venus ...
... told him , that we were bound to the fouthward , by the order of his Britannic Ma- jesty , to observe a tranfit of the planet Venus over the Sun , an aftronomical phænomenon of great importance to navi- gation . Of the tranfit of Venus ...
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