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 from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy ...
... bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy ...
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... bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at N. E. with which we steered weft , edging in for the land , which was distant about eight leagues . At feven in the evening , we were about fix . leagues from the shore , and ...
... bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at N. E. with which we steered weft , edging in for the land , which was distant about eight leagues . At feven in the evening , we were about fix . leagues from the shore , and ...
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... bore N. 76 W. and N. N. E. E .; and an opening near the fouth point , which had the 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 ...
... bore N. 76 W. and N. N. E. E .; and an opening near the fouth point , which had the 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 ...
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... bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the ...
... bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the ...
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... bore weft , and was distant about five miles : our depth of water was thirty - seven fa- thom , and the bottom confifted of fmall pebbles . At day - break , having made fail , the point bore north , distant three leagues , and we now ...
... bore weft , and was distant about five miles : our depth of water was thirty - seven fa- thom , and the bottom confifted of fmall pebbles . At day - break , having made fail , the point bore north , distant three leagues , and we now ...
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