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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... places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 . Monday 12 .
... places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 . Monday 12 .
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... Monday 12 . Tuesday 13 . Wednef . i4 . 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 ...
... Monday 12 . Tuesday 13 . Wednef . i4 . 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 ...
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... Monday 19 next morning , having run twenty - eight leagues upon a W. by N. N. courfe , and judging ourselves to be to the westward of the land of Tovy . Poenammoo , we bore away N. W. with a fresh gale at fouth . At ten , having run ...
... Monday 19 next morning , having run twenty - eight leagues upon a W. by N. N. courfe , and judging ourselves to be to the westward of the land of Tovy . Poenammoo , we bore away N. W. with a fresh gale at fouth . At ten , having run ...
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... Monday 25.- W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow fea all the ...
... Monday 25.- W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow fea all the ...
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... Monday 5 . and ftood to the northward : in the afternoon , we found the variation to be 16 ° 34 ′ E. At eight in the evening , we tacked and stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was ...
... Monday 5 . and ftood to the northward : in the afternoon , we found the variation to be 16 ° 34 ′ E. At eight in the evening , we tacked and stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was ...
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