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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... Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . CHAP . VIII . 7 A general Account of New Zealand : its first Discovery , Situation , Extent , Climate , and Productions . CHAP . IX . 31 A ...
... Coast , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . CHAP . VIII . 7 A general Account of New Zealand : its first Discovery , Situation , Extent , Climate , and Productions . CHAP . IX . 31 A ...
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... Coast of New Holland , now 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 ...
... Coast of New Holland , now 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 ...
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... Coast of Poenammoo , round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand ...
... Coast of Poenammoo , round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand ...
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... coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the ...
... coast , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the ...
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... coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 43 ° 19′S . the peak on the fnowy mountain bore N. 20 E. diftant . twenty - feven leagues ; the fouthern ...
... coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 43 ° 19′S . the peak on the fnowy mountain bore N. 20 E. diftant . twenty - feven leagues ; the fouthern ...
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