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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... shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 ...
... shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 ...
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... shore , which lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo ...
... shore , which lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo ...
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... 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 confiderable diftance from the shore ...
... 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 confiderable diftance from the shore ...
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... shore , and the fouthermoft extremity of the land in fight bore W.S.W. Friday 16 . At day - break on the 16th , we difcovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up ...
... shore , and the fouthermoft extremity of the land in fight bore W.S.W. Friday 16 . At day - break on the 16th , we difcovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up ...
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... shore , and therefore flood off ; its direction is here nearly N. and S. The furface , to the distance of about five Tuesday zo . miles from the fea , is low and flat ; but it then rifes into hills of a confiderable height . It appeared ...
... shore , and therefore flood off ; its direction is here nearly N. and S. The furface , to the distance of about five Tuesday zo . miles from the fea , is low and flat ; but it then rifes into hills of a confiderable height . It appeared ...
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