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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... called New South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 77 CHA P. II . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of the Country , its Inhabitants ...
... called New South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 77 CHA P. II . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of the Country , its Inhabitants ...
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... called them the TRAPS . Our latitude at noon was 47 ° 26 ′ S. The land in fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the ...
... called them the TRAPS . Our latitude at noon was 47 ° 26 ′ S. The land in fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the ...
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... called it SOLANDER'S ISLAND . The fhore of the main lies nearest E. by S. and W. by N. and forms a large open bay , in which there is no appearance of any harbour or shelter for shipping against S. W. and foutherly winds : the furface ...
... called it SOLANDER'S ISLAND . The fhore of the main lies nearest E. by S. and W. by N. and forms a large open bay , in which there is no appearance of any harbour or shelter for shipping against S. W. and foutherly winds : the furface ...
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... called Dusky Bay , lies in latitude 45 ° 47'S : it is between three and four miles broad at the en- trance , and feems to be full as deep as it is broad : it con- tains several islands , behind which there must be shelter from all winds ...
... called Dusky Bay , lies in latitude 45 ° 47'S : it is between three and four miles broad at the en- trance , and feems to be full as deep as it is broad : it con- tains several islands , behind which there must be shelter from all winds ...
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... called it WEST CAPE . It lies about three leagues to the southward of Dusky Bay , in the latitude of 45 ° 54 ′ S. and in the longitude of 193 ° 17 ′ W. The land of this Cape is of a moderate height next the sea , and has nothing ...
... called it WEST CAPE . It lies about three leagues to the southward of Dusky Bay , in the latitude of 45 ° 54 ′ S. and in the longitude of 193 ° 17 ′ W. The land of this Cape is of a moderate height next the sea , and has nothing ...
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