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 3W. 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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... said , that these people were very dark coloured , but not black ; that the man and woman appeared to be very old , being both grey - headed ; that the hair of the man's head was bushy , and his beard long and rough ; that the woman's ...
... said , that these people were very dark coloured , but not black ; that the man and woman appeared to be very old , being both grey - headed ; that the hair of the man's head was bushy , and his beard long and rough ; that the woman's ...
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... said that they were Taata Enos , poor wretches . ' I measured the perpendicular height of the last tide , and found it to be eight feet above low - water mark , and from the time of low water this day , I found that it must be high ...
... said that they were Taata Enos , poor wretches . ' I measured the perpendicular height of the last tide , and found it to be eight feet above low - water mark , and from the time of low water this day , I found that it must be high ...
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... said to be monuments of the Druids . Mr. Gore , who was also this day four or five miles up the country , reported that he had seen the footsteps of men , and tracked animals of three or four different forts , but had not been fortunate ...
... said to be monuments of the Druids . Mr. Gore , who was also this day four or five miles up the country , reported that he had seen the footsteps of men , and tracked animals of three or four different forts , but had not been fortunate ...
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... said had been opened by a kind of crab , which from his defcription we judged to be the fame that the Dutch call Beurs Krabbe , and which we had not seen in these seas . All the vegetable substances which he found in this place , were ...
... said had been opened by a kind of crab , which from his defcription we judged to be the fame that the Dutch call Beurs Krabbe , and which we had not seen in these seas . All the vegetable substances which he found in this place , were ...
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... said , that he had not been able to trade , because the owner of the cocoa - nuts was ab- fent , but that about two dozen had been fent to the boat as a prefent , and that fome linen had been accepted in return .. The people , to give ...
... said , that he had not been able to trade , because the owner of the cocoa - nuts was ab- fent , but that about two dozen had been fent to the boat as a prefent , and that fome linen had been accepted in return .. The people , to give ...
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