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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... many 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 .
... many 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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... Sunday 11 . 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 ...
... Sunday 11 . 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 ...
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... the land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues . B 2 1770 . February . Sunday 18 . leagues . By ROUND THE WORLD . II.
... the land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues . B 2 1770 . February . Sunday 18 . leagues . By ROUND THE WORLD . II.
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... Sunday 18 . leagues . By feven o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the ...
... Sunday 18 . leagues . By feven o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the ...
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... Sunday 25 . calm ; but a light breeze then springing up at E.N.E. we steered S.S.E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow swell ftill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were ...
... Sunday 25 . calm ; but a light breeze then springing up at E.N.E. we steered S.S.E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow swell ftill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were ...
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