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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... Cape Turnagain fouthward along the eastern Coaft of Poenammoo , round Cape 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 ...
... Cape Turnagain fouthward along the eastern Coaft of Poenammoo , round Cape 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 ...
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... Cape of Good Hope : Some Account of Prince's Iland and its Inhabitants , and a comparative View of their Language with the Malay and Javanese . 4 363 CHAP .. CHA P. XIV . Our Arrival at the Cape of CONTENTS .
... Cape of Good Hope : Some Account of Prince's Iland and its Inhabitants , and a comparative View of their Language with the Malay and Javanese . 4 363 CHAP .. CHA P. XIV . Our Arrival at the Cape of CONTENTS .
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... Cape of Good Hope ; fome Remarks on the 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 ...
... Cape of Good Hope ; fome Remarks on the 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 ...
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... Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape ...
... Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape ...
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... Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high and makes in table - points ; it also seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having ...
... Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high and makes in table - points ; it also seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having ...
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