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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... anchor ; but by the help of a light air now and then from the S. W. I was able to keep the fhip from driving . At noon , the northermost land in fight bore N. E. by E. E. distant about ten leagues ; our latitude , by ac- count , was 40 ...
... anchor ; but by the help of a light air now and then from the S. W. I was able to keep the fhip from driving . At noon , the northermost land in fight bore N. E. by E. E. distant about ten leagues ; our latitude , by ac- count , was 40 ...
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... anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General , and it is now generally ...
... anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General , and it is now generally ...
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... anchor , the boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a still more ample supply ; fo that both times when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mefs in the ...
... anchor , the boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a still more ample supply ; fo that both times when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mefs in the ...
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... anchor . During this courfe , we difcovered with our glasses that the land was covered with palm - nut- trees , which we had not seen from the time of our leaving the islands within the Tropick : we alfo faw two men walk- ing along the ...
... anchor . During this courfe , we difcovered with our glasses that the land was covered with palm - nut- trees , which we had not seen from the time of our leaving the islands within the Tropick : we alfo faw two men walk- ing along the ...
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... anchor to the eastward of Bustard Bay . At fix in the morning we weighed , with a gentle breeze at South , and flood away to the N. W. between the outer- most range of islands and the main , leaving several small islands between the ...
... anchor to the eastward of Bustard Bay . At fix in the morning we weighed , with a gentle breeze at South , and flood away to the N. W. between the outer- most range of islands and the main , leaving several small islands between the ...
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