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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... direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height , which rises directly from the fea , and runs parallel with the shore , which lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from ...
... direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height , which rises directly from the fea , and runs parallel with the shore , which lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from ...
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... direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told them , that in my opinion it was no more than a cloud , and that as ...
... direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told them , that in my opinion it was no more than a cloud , and that as ...
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... 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 moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became ...
... 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 moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became ...
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... direction is here nearly N. and S. The furface , to the distance of about five Tuesday zo . miles from the fea , is low and flat ; but it then rifes into hills of a confiderable height . It appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no ...
... direction is here nearly N. and S. The furface , to the distance of about five Tuesday zo . miles from the fea , is low and flat ; but it then rifes into hills of a confiderable height . It appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no ...
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... direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the shore forms two or three bays , in which there appeared to be good anchorage , and effectual shelter from the S. W. wefterly , and N ...
... direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the shore forms two or three bays , in which there appeared to be good anchorage , and effectual shelter from the S. W. wefterly , and N ...
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