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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... stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon ...
... stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon ...
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... stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and ...
... stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and ...
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... stood to the N. E. close upon a wind Monday 195 , till noon , when we tacked , being about three leagues from the land , and , by observation , in latitude 42 ° 8 ' , and longi- tude from Cape Weft 5 ° 5 ' E. We continued to stand ...
... stood to the N. E. close upon a wind Monday 195 , till noon , when we tacked , being about three leagues from the land , and , by observation , in latitude 42 ° 8 ' , and longi- tude from Cape Weft 5 ° 5 ' E. We continued to stand ...
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... stood eastward , with a fresh gale at N. by W. till fix in the evening , when the wind shifted to the S. and S. S. W. with which we steered N. E. by N. till fix in the Wednef . 21. morning , when we hauled in E. by N. to make the land ...
... stood eastward , with a fresh gale at N. by W. till fix in the evening , when the wind shifted to the S. and S. S. W. with which we steered N. E. by N. till fix in the Wednef . 21. morning , when we hauled in E. by N. to make the land ...
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... stood to the southward till twelve at night , and Tuesday 17. then wore and stood to the N. W. till four in the morning , when we again ftood to the fouthward , having a fresh gale at W.S. W. with fqualls and dark weather till nine ...
... stood to the southward till twelve at night , and Tuesday 17. then wore and stood to the N. W. till four in the morning , when we again ftood to the fouthward , having a fresh gale at W.S. W. with fqualls and dark weather till nine ...
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