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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... Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 140 CHA P. IV . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . 153 CHAP . V ...
... Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 140 CHA P. IV . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . 153 CHAP . V ...
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... Ship was refitting . CHAP . XI . 300 Some Account of Batavia , and the adjacent Country ; Country ; with their Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 320 CHAP . XII . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent ...
... Ship was refitting . CHAP . XI . 300 Some Account of Batavia , and the adjacent Country ; Country ; with their Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 320 CHAP . XII . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent ...
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... Run from Java Head to that Place ; a Defcription of the Cape and of Saint Helena : With fome Account of the Hottentots , and the Return of the Ship to England . AN ΑΝ ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD . BOOK CONTENTS .
... Run from Java Head to that Place ; a Defcription of the Cape and of Saint Helena : With fome Account of the Hottentots , and the Return of the Ship to England . AN ΑΝ ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD . BOOK CONTENTS .
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... ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun , he did not 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 ...
... ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun , he did not 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 ...
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... ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednef . 21 . keeping at the distance of between four and twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from ...
... ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednef . 21 . keeping at the distance of between four and twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from ...
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