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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... 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 island under that name , but he found a tree ...
... 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 island under that name , but he found a tree ...
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... respect to their chefnut - trees an object of much less impor- tance , which , however , are thus brought to bear fooner than they would otherwife have done . We We faw no wheel - carriages of any fort in 6 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... respect to their chefnut - trees an object of much less impor- tance , which , however , are thus brought to bear fooner than they would otherwife have done . We We faw no wheel - carriages of any fort in 6 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... trees would be a great ornament to the gardens of Europe . The number of inhabitants in this island is supposed to be about 80,000 , and the custom - house duties produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year ...
... trees would be a great ornament to the gardens of Europe . The number of inhabitants in this island is supposed to be about 80,000 , and the custom - house duties produce a reve- nue to the King of Portugal of 20,000 pounds a - year ...
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... trees and bufhes . fat an almost endless variety of birds , especially fmall ones , many of them covered with the most elegant plumage ; among which were the humming- 1768 . December . 1768 . December . bird . Of infects too there bird ...
... trees and bufhes . fat an almost endless variety of birds , especially fmall ones , many of them covered with the most elegant plumage ; among which were the humming- 1768 . December . 1768 . December . bird . Of infects too there bird ...
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... trees , and were therefore very difficult to be caught , except when the fea breeze blew fresh , which kept them nearer to the ground . The banks of the fea , and of the small brooks which water this part of the country , are almost ...
... trees , and were therefore very difficult to be caught , except when the fea breeze blew fresh , which kept them nearer to the ground . The banks of the fea , and of the small brooks which water this part of the country , are almost ...
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