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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... shore , and finding out where they lie with their feet . We had also a fish that Frezier , in his Voyage to the Spanish Main in South Ame- rica , has defcribed by the names of Elefant , rica , 35 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... shore , and finding out where they lie with their feet . We had also a fish that Frezier , in his Voyage to the Spanish Main in South Ame- rica , has defcribed by the names of Elefant , rica , 35 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... feet would perfectly answer the purpose . When we firft arrived upon the coaft of this country , we imagined it to be much better peopled than we afterwards found found it , concluding that the inland parts were populous 40 LIEUTENANT ...
... feet would perfectly answer the purpose . When we firft arrived upon the coaft of this country , we imagined it to be much better peopled than we afterwards found found it , concluding that the inland parts were populous 40 LIEUTENANT ...
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... feet long , and four broad , across which the long threads , which lie close together , or warp , are ftrained , and the cross threads , or woof , are worked in by hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of ...
... feet long , and four broad , across which the long threads , which lie close together , or warp , are ftrained , and the cross threads , or woof , are worked in by hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of ...
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... feet long , eight or ten broad , and five or fix high , from the pole that runs from one end to the other , and forms › the ridge , to the ground : the framing is of wood , generally . flender sticks , and both walls and roof consist of ...
... feet long , eight or ten broad , and five or fix high , from the pole that runs from one end to the other , and forms › the ridge , to the ground : the framing is of wood , generally . flender sticks , and both walls and roof consist of ...
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... feet high . When we were on fhore in the diftrict called Tolaga , we faw the ruins , or rather the frame of a house , for it had never been finished , much fuperior in fize to any that we faw elsewhere : it was thirty feet in length ...
... feet high . When we were on fhore in the diftrict called Tolaga , we faw the ruins , or rather the frame of a house , for it had never been finished , much fuperior in fize to any that we faw elsewhere : it was thirty feet in length ...
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