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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... whole island was , at fome remote period , thrown up by the explosion of fubterraneous fire , as every stone , whether whole or in frag- ments , that we faw upon it appeared to have been burnt , and even the fand itself to be nothing ...
... whole island was , at fome remote period , thrown up by the explosion of fubterraneous fire , as every stone , whether whole or in frag- ments , that we faw upon it appeared to have been burnt , and even the fand itself to be nothing ...
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... whole vin- tage is very often spoiled by the number of bad grapes which are mixed in the vat , and which they will not throw out , because they increase the quantity of the wine : an inftance of the force of habit , which is the more ...
... whole vin- tage is very often spoiled by the number of bad grapes which are mixed in the vat , and which they will not throw out , because they increase the quantity of the wine : an inftance of the force of habit , which is the more ...
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... whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the fculls one is very remarkable ...
... whole lining of which , both fides and cieling , is composed of hu- ́man fculls and thigh bones ; the thigh bones are laid acrofs each other , and a scull is placed in each of the four angles . Among the fculls one is very remarkable ...
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... whole of our vifit , which lafted about half an hour . The hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land ...
... whole of our vifit , which lafted about half an hour . The hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land ...
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... whole fhip's company ; the falt was not wanted . The fea provifion of these fishermen confifted of nothing more than a cafk of water , and a bag of Caffada flour , which they called Farinha de Pao , or wooden flour , which indeed is a ...
... whole fhip's company ; the falt was not wanted . The fea provifion of these fishermen confifted of nothing more than a cafk of water , and a bag of Caffada flour , which they called Farinha de Pao , or wooden flour , which indeed is a ...
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