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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... bore S. W. W .; and fome low land that appeared like an island , and lay close under the foot of the ridge , bore N. W. by N. about five or fix leagues . ༧ In the afternoon , when Mr. Banks was out in In LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... bore S. W. W .; and fome low land that appeared like an island , and lay close under the foot of the ridge , bore N. W. by N. about five or fix leagues . ༧ In the afternoon , when Mr. Banks was out in In LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... appeared like an island extending from S.S.W. to S. W. by W. W. distant about eight leagues . In the afternoon , we stood to the southward of it , with a fresh breeze at north : at eight in the evening , we had run eleven leagues , and ...
... appeared like an island extending from S.S.W. to S. W. by W. W. distant about eight leagues . In the afternoon , we stood to the southward of it , with a fresh breeze at north : at eight in the evening , we had run eleven leagues , and ...
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... appearance of a bay or harbour , N. 20 W. diftant be- tween three and four leagues : in this fituation we had thirty- eight fathom water with a brown fandy bottom . 1770 . February . Saturday 17 . Inland . This island , which Inamed ...
... appearance of a bay or harbour , N. 20 W. diftant be- tween three and four leagues : in this fituation we had thirty- eight fathom water with a brown fandy bottom . 1770 . February . Saturday 17 . Inland . This island , which Inamed ...
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... appeared to the fouthward , and as I thought that we had flood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a ...
... appeared to the fouthward , and as I thought that we had flood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a ...
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... appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the last twenty - four hours ...
... appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the last twenty - four hours ...
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