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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... fame time , we faw the land more diftinctly than before , extending from N. to S. W. by S. which , at fome dif tance within the coaft , had a lofty and mountainous appear- ance . We foon found that the accounts which had been given us ...
... fame time , we faw the land more diftinctly than before , extending from N. to S. W. by S. which , at fome dif tance within the coaft , had a lofty and mountainous appear- ance . We foon found that the accounts which had been given us ...
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... fame as thofe that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and ...
... fame as thofe that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and ...
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... fame fituation Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the variation , by several azimuths and the amplitude , to be 15 ° 10 ' E. On the 7th at noon , we were in latitude 47 ° 6 ' S. Wednef . 7 . and had ...
... fame fituation Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the variation , by several azimuths and the amplitude , to be 15 ° 10 ' E. On the 7th at noon , we were in latitude 47 ° 6 ' S. Wednef . 7 . and had ...
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... fame that I had feen from the entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound , from which it bears : N. W. by N. diftant nine leagues . At noon , it bore fouth , diftant four or five miles , and the north weft head of the Sound S. E. by S. diftant ...
... fame that I had feen from the entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound , from which it bears : N. W. by N. diftant nine leagues . At noon , it bore fouth , diftant four or five miles , and the north weft head of the Sound S. E. by S. diftant ...
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... fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope , with ftill more force , because no discovery of moment could be hoped for in that rout ; it was therefore refolved that we fhould return by the East ...
... fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope , with ftill more force , because no discovery of moment could be hoped for in that rout ; it was therefore refolved that we fhould return by the East ...
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