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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... seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than ...
... seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than ...
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... seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the northermoft N. E. E. diftant about three leagues . This land is high and barren , with nothing ...
... seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the northermoft N. E. E. diftant about three leagues . This land is high and barren , with nothing ...
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... seemed to be fo well digefted , and in so fair a way of being perfectly healed , that if I had not known no application had been made to it , I should certainly have en- quired , with a very interested curiosity , after the vulnerary ...
... seemed to be fo well digefted , and in so fair a way of being perfectly healed , that if I had not known no application had been made to it , I should certainly have en- quired , with a very interested curiosity , after the vulnerary ...
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... seemed to have several things in common , particularly their fine clothes and fishing nets . Their fine clothes , which pof- fibly might be the spoils of war , were kept in a small hut , which was erected for that purpose in the middle ...
... seemed to have several things in common , particularly their fine clothes and fishing nets . Their fine clothes , which pof- fibly might be the spoils of war , were kept in a small hut , which was erected for that purpose in the middle ...
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... seemed to afford but little fhelter from the fea winds , and yet it is the only place where there appeared a probability of finding anchorage upon the whole coaft . We continued to steer along the shore N. by E. and N. N. E. at the ...
... seemed to afford but little fhelter from the fea winds , and yet it is the only place where there appeared a probability of finding anchorage upon the whole coaft . We continued to steer along the shore N. by E. and N. N. E. at the ...
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