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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... Dutch navigator , whose name has been feveral times mentioned in this narrative , on the 13th of December , in the year 1642. He traverfed the eastern coaft from latitude 34 to 43 , and entered the ftreight which di- vides the two ...
... Dutch navigator , whose name has been feveral times mentioned in this narrative , on the 13th of December , in the year 1642. He traverfed the eastern coaft from latitude 34 to 43 , and entered the ftreight which di- vides the two ...
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... Dutch fquadron , Quiros , and Roggewein ; and the track of the Endeavour has demonstrated that the land feen by these perfons , and fuppofed to be part of a continent , is not fo ; it has also totally fubverted the the- oretical ...
... Dutch fquadron , Quiros , and Roggewein ; and the track of the Endeavour has demonstrated that the land feen by these perfons , and fuppofed to be part of a continent , is not fo ; it has also totally fubverted the the- oretical ...
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... Dutch call Beurs Krabbe , and which we had not seen in these seas . All the vegetable substances which he found in this place , were encrusted with marine productions , and covered with barnacles ; a fure fign that they must have come ...
... Dutch call Beurs Krabbe , and which we had not seen in these seas . All the vegetable substances which he found in this place , were encrusted with marine productions , and covered with barnacles ; a fure fign that they must have come ...
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... Dutch Pyn Appel Boomen . Of the quadrupeds , I have already mentioned the dog , and particularly defcribed the kanguroo , and the animal of the opoffum kind , resembling the phalanger of Buffon ; to which I can add only one more ...
... Dutch Pyn Appel Boomen . Of the quadrupeds , I have already mentioned the dog , and particularly defcribed the kanguroo , and the animal of the opoffum kind , resembling the phalanger of Buffon ; to which I can add only one more ...
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... Dutch , and as our track with the foundings will appear by the chart , it is fufficient to fay , that we con- tinued our courfe to the northward with very fhallow water , upon a bank of mud , at fuch a distance from the shore as that it ...
... Dutch , and as our track with the foundings will appear by the chart , it is fufficient to fay , that we con- tinued our courfe to the northward with very fhallow water , upon a bank of mud , at fuch a distance from the shore as that it ...
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