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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... in this fituation had fifty fathom : water , with a fine fandy bottom . The variation of the com- pass by this morning's amplitude was 14 ° 39 ′ E. At fun - rife , the next morning , our 3 At 10 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... in this fituation had fifty fathom : water , with a fine fandy bottom . The variation of the com- pass by this morning's amplitude was 14 ° 39 ′ E. At fun - rife , the next morning , our 3 At 10 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... fathom water with a brown fandy bottom . 1770 . February . Saturday 17 . Inland . This island , which Inamed after Mr. Banks , lies about five Banks's leagues from the coaft of Tovy Poenammoo ; the fouth point bears S. 21 W. from the ...
... fathom water with a brown fandy bottom . 1770 . February . Saturday 17 . Inland . This island , which Inamed after Mr. Banks , lies about five Banks's leagues from the coaft of Tovy Poenammoo ; the fouth point bears S. 21 W. from the ...
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... fathom wa- Tuesday 20. ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the fhore W. by S. and during a course of four leagues , our depth of water was from thirty - two to thirteen fathom . When 1770 . February . When it was ...
... fathom wa- Tuesday 20. ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the fhore W. by S. and during a course of four leagues , our depth of water was from thirty - two to thirteen fathom . When 1770 . February . When it was ...
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... fathom we were but three miles diftant from the shore , and therefore flood off ; its 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 ...
... fathom we were but three miles diftant from the shore , and therefore flood off ; its 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 ...
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... fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out in the boat , shot two Port Egmont hens , which were in every refpect the fame as thofe that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we ...
... fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out in the boat , shot two Port Egmont hens , which were in every refpect the fame as thofe that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we ...
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