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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... use of the artists at his expence . As the materials furnished by Mr. Banks were fo interest- ing and copious , there arofe an objection against writing an account of this voyage in the perfon of the Commander , which could have no ...
... use of the artists at his expence . As the materials furnished by Mr. Banks were fo interest- ing and copious , there arofe an objection against writing an account of this voyage in the perfon of the Commander , which could have no ...
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... use of his limbs , and the muscles were fo fhrunk that his fhoes fell from his feet ; he confented to go forward with fuch affiftance as could be given him , but no attempts to relieve poor Richmond were fuccessful . It being found ...
... use of his limbs , and the muscles were fo fhrunk that his fhoes fell from his feet ; he confented to go forward with fuch affiftance as could be given him , but no attempts to relieve poor Richmond were fuccessful . It being found ...
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... use of which they appeared to be well ac- quainted ; for they made figns to Mr. Banks to shoot a feal which followed the boat as they were going on shore from the ship . M. de Bougainville , who , in January 1768 , just one year before ...
... use of which they appeared to be well ac- quainted ; for they made figns to Mr. Banks to shoot a feal which followed the boat as they were going on shore from the ship . M. de Bougainville , who , in January 1768 , just one year before ...
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... use among the ancient and mighty nations of the northern he- mifphere , the green branch of a tree . We received it with looks and geftures of kindness and fatisfaction ; and observ- ing that each of them held one in his hand , we ...
... use among the ancient and mighty nations of the northern he- mifphere , the green branch of a tree . We received it with looks and geftures of kindness and fatisfaction ; and observ- ing that each of them held one in his hand , we ...
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... use- lefs : or , if in this expectation he should be disappointed , that he might recover it by the ascendancy he had acquired over the Chiefs . He fet out , accompanied by a midshipman and Mr. Green , and as he was crofling the river ...
... use- lefs : or , if in this expectation he should be disappointed , that he might recover it by the ascendancy he had acquired over the Chiefs . He fet out , accompanied by a midshipman and Mr. Green , and as he was crofling the river ...
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