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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... a tent of Mr. Banks's , which had been set up for Tupia when he was fick , taking in its course a fow and pigs , VOL . III . + Z one 1770 . July . Thursday 19 . July . 1770. one of which it scorched to death ROUND THE WORLD . 177.
... a tent of Mr. Banks's , which had been set up for Tupia when he was fick , taking in its course a fow and pigs , VOL . III . + Z one 1770 . July . Thursday 19 . July . 1770. one of which it scorched to death ROUND THE WORLD . 177.
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... set to the weftward , and the ebb to the eastward . 14 After we had come to an anchor , I fent away the Master in the long - boat to found , who , upon his return in the evening , 3 1770 . Auguft . Thursday 23 . 1770 . Auguft . evening ...
... set to the weftward , and the ebb to the eastward . 14 After we had come to an anchor , I fent away the Master in the long - boat to found , who , upon his return in the evening , 3 1770 . Auguft . Thursday 23 . 1770 . Auguft . evening ...
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... set the least value ; for , as I have before observed , many of the things that we had given them , we found left negli- gently about in the woods , like the playthings of children , which please only while they are new . Upon their ...
... set the least value ; for , as I have before observed , many of the things that we had given them , we found left negli- gently about in the woods , like the playthings of children , which please only while they are new . Upon their ...
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... set up occafionally by a wandering hord in any place that would furnish them for a time with fubfiftence , and left behind them when , after it was exhaufted , they went away : but in places where they remained only for a night or two ...
... set up occafionally by a wandering hord in any place that would furnish them for a time with fubfiftence , and left behind them when , after it was exhaufted , they went away : but in places where they remained only for a night or two ...
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... set strongly to the weftward , as far as the opening of Broad Sound ; but on the north fide of that Sound , it came with a very flow motion from the north weft ; and when we lay at anchor before Repulfe Bay , Hh 2 it 1770 . Auguft ...
... set strongly to the weftward , as far as the opening of Broad Sound ; but on the north fide of that Sound , it came with a very flow motion from the north weft ; and when we lay at anchor before Repulfe Bay , Hh 2 it 1770 . Auguft ...
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