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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... Indians came up , who probably had not seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted ...
... Indians came up , who probably had not seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted ...
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... Indians in Queen Charlotte's Sound of the land to the fouthward were not true ; for they had told us that it might be circumnavigated in four days . On the 23d , having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- Friday 23- pecting wind from ...
... Indians in Queen Charlotte's Sound of the land to the fouthward were not true ; for they had told us that it might be circumnavigated in four days . On the 23d , having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- Friday 23- pecting wind from ...
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... Indians of Florida : for if prisoners had been taken , this poor young creature , who cannot be fuppofed capable of making much resistance , would probably have been one , and we knew that he was killed with the reft , for the fray had ...
... Indians of Florida : for if prisoners had been taken , this poor young creature , who cannot be fuppofed capable of making much resistance , would probably have been one , and we knew that he was killed with the reft , for the fray had ...
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... Indian monarch , his territory is certainly ex- tenfive : he was acknowledged from Cape Kidnappers to the northward , and weftward as far as the Bay of Plenty , a length of of coast upwards of eighty leagues ; and we do 66 LIEUTENANT ...
... Indian monarch , his territory is certainly ex- tenfive : he was acknowledged from Cape Kidnappers to the northward , and weftward as far as the Bay of Plenty , a length of of coast upwards of eighty leagues ; and we do 66 LIEUTENANT ...
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... Indian repeating his anfwer , added öeia , which made the word Kematuaroöeia ; and thus it happened that in the log book I found Matuaro transformed into Cumettiwarroweia : and the fame transformation , by the fame means , might happen ...
... Indian repeating his anfwer , added öeia , which made the word Kematuaroöeia ; and thus it happened that in the log book I found Matuaro transformed into Cumettiwarroweia : and the fame transformation , by the fame means , might happen ...
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