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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... seven men , put off from that shore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun , he did not see them . We were at a ...
... seven men , put off from that shore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun , he did not see them . We were at a ...
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... seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the fhore we had thirty - two fathom wa- Tuesday 20. ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the fhore W. by ...
... seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the fhore we had thirty - two fathom wa- Tuesday 20. ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the fhore W. by ...
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... seven and fifteen leagues from the shore , having from seventy to forty - four fathom . At noon , our latitude by observation was 44 ° 40 ′ S. and our longitude from Banks's ifland 1 ° 31 ′ W. From this time to fix in the evening it was ...
... seven and fifteen leagues from the shore , having from seventy to forty - four fathom . At noon , our latitude by observation was 44 ° 40 ′ S. and our longitude from Banks's ifland 1 ° 31 ′ W. From this time to fix in the evening it was ...
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... seven fa- thom , and the bottom confifted of fmall pebbles . At day - break , having made fail , the point bore north , distant three leagues , and we now found that the land trended from it S. W. by W. as far as we could fee . This ...
... seven fa- thom , and the bottom confifted of fmall pebbles . At day - break , having made fail , the point bore north , distant three leagues , and we now found that the land trended from it S. W. by W. as far as we could fee . This ...
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... seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level . At three o'clock in the afternoon , we faw the land extending from N. E. by N. to N. W. N .; and foon after we difcovered fome ...
... seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level . At three o'clock in the afternoon , we faw the land extending from N. E. by N. to N. W. N .; and foon after we difcovered fome ...
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