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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... shoals , and were taken by the natives in their feines , who fold them to us at a very easy rate . Befides thefe , there were fish of many fpecies which we had never seen before , but to all which the feamen very readily gave names ; fo ...
... shoals , and were taken by the natives in their feines , who fold them to us at a very easy rate . Befides thefe , there were fish of many fpecies which we had never seen before , but to all which the feamen very readily gave names ; fo ...
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... shoal water with their little canoes , and pick them out with their hands . We did not observe that they eat any of them raw , nor do they always go on fhore to drefs them , for they have frequently fires in their canoes for that pur ...
... shoal water with their little canoes , and pick them out with their hands . We did not observe that they eat any of them raw , nor do they always go on fhore to drefs them , for they have frequently fires in their canoes for that pur ...
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... shoal , from two to one mile diftant , having regular foundings from thirteen to seven fathom , with a fine sandy bottom . At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 20 ° 26 ' , which was thirteen miles to the northward of the log ...
... shoal , from two to one mile diftant , having regular foundings from thirteen to seven fathom , with a fine sandy bottom . At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 20 ° 26 ' , which was thirteen miles to the northward of the log ...
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... shoal , upon which we had three fathom , and found deep water all round it , we got under fail , and having hauled round the three islands that have been juft mentioned , came to an an- chor under the lee of them , in fifteen fathom ...
... shoal , upon which we had three fathom , and found deep water all round it , we got under fail , and having hauled round the three islands that have been juft mentioned , came to an an- chor under the lee of them , in fifteen fathom ...
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... shoals which we had seen at fun - fet , and that all danger was paft : before ten , we had twenty and one and twenty fathom , and this depth continuing , the gen- tlemen left the deck in great tranquillity , and went to bed ; but a few ...
... shoals which we had seen at fun - fet , and that all danger was paft : before ten , we had twenty and one and twenty fathom , and this depth continuing , the gen- tlemen left the deck in great tranquillity , and went to bed ; but a few ...
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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