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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... 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 been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon ...
... 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 been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon ...
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... also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told them , that in my opinion it was no more than a cloud , and that as the fun rose it would diffipate and vanish . However , as I was ...
... also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told them , that in my opinion it was no more than a cloud , and that as the fun rose it would diffipate and vanish . However , as I was ...
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... also the land trends away to the S. E. and to the northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 . March . Tuesday 13 . Having brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of ...
... also the land trends away to the S. E. and to the northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 . March . Tuesday 13 . Having brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of ...
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... also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral fubftance ; and that , confidering the correspondence of latitude between this place and South America , it was not improbable but that , by a proper ...
... also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral fubftance ; and that , confidering the correspondence of latitude between this place and South America , it was not improbable but that , by a proper ...
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... also reason to fear that the chart will in many places be found erroneous , as we were feldom able to keep the fhore , and were fome- times blown to fuch a distance that it could not be feen . From Cape Weft to Cape Farewell , and even ...
... also reason to fear that the chart will in many places be found erroneous , as we were feldom able to keep the fhore , and were fome- times blown to fuch a distance that it could not be feen . From Cape Weft to Cape Farewell , and even ...
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