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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... four double canoes , hav- ing on board fifty - seven men , put off from that shore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun ...
... four double canoes , hav- ing on board fifty - seven men , put off from that shore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the ship , with respect to him , being right in the wake of the fun ...
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... four leagues : in this fituation we had thirty- eight 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 ...
... four leagues : in this fituation we had thirty- eight 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 ...
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... 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 thirteen fathom we 12 LIEUTENANT ...
... 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 thirteen fathom we 12 LIEUTENANT ...
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... four and twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d ... four days . On the 23d , having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- Friday 23- pecting wind from the fame quarter , we ...
... four and twelve leagues from the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d ... four days . On the 23d , having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- Friday 23- pecting wind from the fame quarter , we ...
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... four leagues to the south west of it , and very near the fhore , a remarkable saddle - hill , which is a good direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the shore forms two or three bays ...
... four leagues to the south west of it , and very near the fhore , a remarkable saddle - hill , which is a good direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the shore forms two or three bays ...
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