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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... fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then ...
... fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then ...
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... fight bore W.S.W. Friday 16 . At day - break on the 16th , we difcovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At noon ...
... fight bore W.S.W. Friday 16 . At day - break on the 16th , we difcovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze sprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At noon ...
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... fight W. by N. A head fea prevented us from making much way to the fouthward ; at seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the fhore we had thirty - two fathom wa ...
... fight W. by N. A head fea prevented us from making much way to the fouthward ; at seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the fhore we had thirty - two fathom wa ...
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... fight bore Monday 25.- W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow ...
... fight bore Monday 25.- W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow ...
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... fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the ...
... fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and seemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the ...
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