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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... see them . We were at a confiderable diftance from the shore , and he was at a confiderable distance from the ship , which was between him and the fhore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be in fome pain for him , fearing ...
... see them . We were at a confiderable diftance from the shore , and he was at a confiderable distance from the ship , which was between him and the fhore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be in fome pain for him , fearing ...
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... see any of these : husbandmen work , but we faw what ferves them at once : for spade and plough : this inftrument is nothing more than a long narrow ftake sharpened to an edge at one end , with a short piece fastened transversely at a ...
... see any of these : husbandmen work , but we faw what ferves them at once : for spade and plough : this inftrument is nothing more than a long narrow ftake sharpened to an edge at one end , with a short piece fastened transversely at a ...
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... the land is fo low that I could but just see it from the top - mast head . The breakers lie be- tween three and four miles from Point Look - out ; and at this time : 1770 . May . Wednef . 16 . time we ROUND THE WORLD . 109.
... the land is fo low that I could but just see it from the top - mast head . The breakers lie be- tween three and four miles from Point Look - out ; and at this time : 1770 . May . Wednef . 16 . time we ROUND THE WORLD . 109.
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... S. E. E. distant about thirteen leagues : at nine , we difcovered land to the weftward , and foon after faw smoke in feveral places . Our depth of water was now decreased to seventeen fathom , and by noon we had no more than thirteen ...
... S. E. E. distant about thirteen leagues : at nine , we difcovered land to the weftward , and foon after faw smoke in feveral places . Our depth of water was now decreased to seventeen fathom , and by noon we had no more than thirteen ...
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... see from the maft - head : it is very low , and : a continuation of the low land which we had feen at the . bottom of Repulfe Bay . This bay I called EDGCUMBE BAY ,, but 1770 . June . 2 but without staying to look ROUND THE WORLD . 133.
... see from the maft - head : it is very low , and : a continuation of the low land which we had feen at the . bottom of Repulfe Bay . This bay I called EDGCUMBE BAY ,, but 1770 . June . 2 but without staying to look ROUND THE WORLD . 133.
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