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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... seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant two and twenty leagues S. W. S .; and from Cape Pallifer thirty leagues W. S. W .; and are of a height fufficient to be seen at a much greater distance ...
... seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant two and twenty leagues S. W. S .; and from Cape Pallifer thirty leagues W. S. W .; and are of a height fufficient to be seen at a much greater distance ...
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... seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted all his eloquence to prevail upon them to ...
... seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted all his eloquence to prevail upon them to ...
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... seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was inhabited , for we saw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling ...
... seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was inhabited , for we saw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling ...
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... seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as far as S. W. ...
... seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as far as S. W. ...
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... seen ; it was however remarkable for a number of white patches , which I took to be marble , as they reflected the fun's rays very frongly other patches of the fame kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country ...
... seen ; it was however remarkable for a number of white patches , which I took to be marble , as they reflected the fun's rays very frongly other patches of the fame kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country ...
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abreaſt afhore alfo almoſt alſo anchor appeared Auguft Banks Batavia becauſe befides boat bore Botany Bay breeze called Cape Cape Grafton Cape Saunders cloſe coaft coaſt confiderable confifts courſe diftant diſcovered diſtance Dutch eaſt Endeavour River Engliſh faid fame fandy fathom fathom water feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhoals fhore fide firſt fiſh fituation fize fmall fome fometimes foon four leagues fouth fouthward freſh Friday fteered ftill fuch houſes Indians inhabitants iſlands juſt land in fight latitude leaſt lefs leſs longitude Maſter miles Monday morning moſt muſt natives night noon northermoft northward o'clock obfervation paffage paffed perfon pinnace poffible purpoſe reaſon reſembling round ſaw ſcarcely ſea ſeemed ſeen Semau ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall ſmoke ſome ſtood thefe themſelves theſe thoſe three leagues Thurſday trees Tueſday turtle uſe Wednef weft weftward weſt wind wood yawl