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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... South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this · Country ; with a Description of the Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars ...
... South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this · Country ; with a Description of the Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars ...
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... South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 77 CHA P. II . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of the Country , its Inhabitants , and ...
... South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 77 CHA P. II . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of the Country , its Inhabitants , and ...
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... South Wales ; a particular Defcription of the Country , its Products , and People : A Specimen of the Language , and fome Obfervations upon the Currents and Tides . CHAP . VII . 218 The Passage from New South Wales to New Guinea , with ...
... South Wales ; a particular Defcription of the Country , its Products , and People : A Specimen of the Language , and fome Obfervations upon the Currents and Tides . CHAP . VII . 218 The Passage from New South Wales to New Guinea , with ...
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... South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . A T ...
... South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . A T ...
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... land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues . B 2 1770 . February . Sunday 18 . leagues . By ROUND THE WORLD . II.
... land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues . B 2 1770 . February . Sunday 18 . leagues . By ROUND THE WORLD . II.
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