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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... fishing in his boat , feemed to think us entirely unworthy of his notice ; and some , al- moft without invitation , had come on board with an air of perfect confidence and good - will . From the behaviour of our last visitors , I gave ...
... fishing in his boat , feemed to think us entirely unworthy of his notice ; and some , al- moft without invitation , had come on board with an air of perfect confidence and good - will . From the behaviour of our last visitors , I gave ...
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... the fecurity of our faces . For this fcarcity of animals upon the land , the fea , how- ever , makes an abundant recompenfe ; every cicek fwarm- E 2 ing 1770 . March . Birds . 1770 . March . Fifh . 1 ing with fish ROUND THE WORLD . LA 35.
... the fecurity of our faces . For this fcarcity of animals upon the land , the fea , how- ever , makes an abundant recompenfe ; every cicek fwarm- E 2 ing 1770 . March . Birds . 1770 . March . Fifh . 1 ing with fish ROUND THE WORLD . LA 35.
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... fish , which are not only wholefome , but equally delicious with those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole ...
... fish , which are not only wholefome , but equally delicious with those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole ...
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... fish re- fembling both foles and flounders , befides eels and congers of various kinds , with many others of which those who hall hereafter vifit this coaft will not fail to find the advan- tage ; and shell - fish in great variety ...
... fish re- fembling both foles and flounders , befides eels and congers of various kinds , with many others of which those who hall hereafter vifit this coaft will not fail to find the advan- tage ; and shell - fish in great variety ...
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... fishing nets ; fome of which , as I have before remarked , are of an enormous fize . A plant , which with fuch advantage might be applied to fo many useful and important purposes , would certainly be a great I. 1770 . March . 1770 ...
... fishing nets ; fome of which , as I have before remarked , are of an enormous fize . A plant , which with fuch advantage might be applied to fo many useful and important purposes , would certainly be a great I. 1770 . March . 1770 ...
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