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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... Woods , and its Confequences . The Fort erected : a Vifit from feveral Chiefs on Board and at the Fort , with fome Account of the Mufic of the Natives , and the Manner in which they difpofe of their Dead : 89 CHAP . X. An Excurfion to ...
... Woods , and its Confequences . The Fort erected : a Vifit from feveral Chiefs on Board and at the Fort , with fome Account of the Mufic of the Natives , and the Manner in which they difpofe of their Dead : 89 CHAP . X. An Excurfion to ...
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... 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 called by the natives Vigniatico , the Laurus ...
... 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 called by the natives Vigniatico , the Laurus ...
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... wood , which is preffed down upon them by a lever with a stone tied to the end of it . The inhabitants have made fo little improvement in knowlege or art , that they have but very lately brought all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one ...
... wood , which is preffed down upon them by a lever with a stone tied to the end of it . The inhabitants have made fo little improvement in knowlege or art , that they have but very lately brought all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one ...
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... woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various kinds not known in Europe ; particularly two , called by the Portuguese Mirmulano and Paobranco , the leaves of both which , particu- larly ...
... woods of chefnut and pine of immense extent , and above them forests of wild timber of various kinds not known in Europe ; particularly two , called by the Portuguese Mirmulano and Paobranco , the leaves of both which , particu- larly ...
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... wooden flour , which indeed is a name which very well fuits its tafte and appear- ance . Their water cafk was large , as wide as their boat , and exactly fitted a place that was made for it in the ballast ; it was impoffible therefore ...
... wooden flour , which indeed is a name which very well fuits its tafte and appear- ance . Their water cafk was large , as wide as their boat , and exactly fitted a place that was made for it in the ballast ; it was impoffible therefore ...
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