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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... brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the Monday 19 next morning , having run twenty - eight leagues upon a W. by N. N. courfe , and judging ourselves to be to the westward of the land of Tovy . Poenammoo , we bore away ...
... brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the Monday 19 next morning , having run twenty - eight leagues upon a W. by N. N. courfe , and judging ourselves to be to the westward of the land of Tovy . Poenammoo , we bore away ...
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... brought to for the night . At this time , the point 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 ...
... brought to for the night . At this time , the point 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 ...
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... brought us under our courfes , but about eight in the morning it became moderate ; and at noon , veering to the weft , we tacked and flood to the northward , having no land in fight . Our latitude , by obfervation , was 47 ° 33 ′ S. our ...
... brought us under our courfes , but about eight in the morning it became moderate ; and at noon , veering to the weft , we tacked and flood to the northward , having no land in fight . Our latitude , by obfervation , was 47 ° 33 ′ S. our ...
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... brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of N. E. with a moderate breeze at S. S. E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 S. At this time , being ...
... brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of N. E. with a moderate breeze at S. S. E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 S. At this time , being ...
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... brought to Thursday 15. for the night . At four in the morning , we ftood in for the Friday 16 . land , and when the day broke we saw what appeared to be an inlet ; but upon a nearer approach proved to be only a deep valley between two ...
... brought to Thursday 15. for the night . At four in the morning , we ftood in for the Friday 16 . land , and when the day broke we saw what appeared to be an inlet ; but upon a nearer approach proved to be only a deep valley between two ...
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