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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... sea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this place stretches S. by W. and N. by E. and feemed to end in a high bluff point to the fouthward . By eight in the evening we were abreast of this point ; but it being then dark , and I not ...
... sea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this place stretches S. by W. and N. by E. and feemed to end in a high bluff point to the fouthward . By eight in the evening we were abreast of this point ; but it being then dark , and I not ...
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... sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them , and as I was unwilling to run to lee- ward , I tacked and ...
... sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them , and as I was unwilling to run to lee- ward , I tacked and ...
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... sea , and has nothing remarkable about it , except a very white cliff , two or three leagues to the fouthward of it : to the fouthward of it also the land trends away to the S. E. and to the northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 ...
... sea , and has nothing remarkable about it , except a very white cliff , two or three leagues to the fouthward of it : to the fouthward of it also the land trends away to the S. E. and to the northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 ...
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... sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but the fummits of rocks , which stand so near together , that instead of vallies there are only fiffures between them . From the latitude of ...
... sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but the fummits of rocks , which stand so near together , that instead of vallies there are only fiffures between them . From the latitude of ...
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... Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai ... sea coaft may poffibly be erroneous . From latitude 36 ° 15 ′ to nearly the length of Entry Island , our course was ...
... Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai ... sea coaft may poffibly be erroneous . From latitude 36 ° 15 ′ to nearly the length of Entry Island , our course was ...
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