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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... Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 320 CHAP . XII . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try , their Manners , Cuftoms , and Manner of Life . CHAP . XIII . 345 The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape ...
... Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 320 CHAP . XII . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try , their Manners , Cuftoms , and Manner of Life . CHAP . XIII . 345 The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape ...
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... fruit , would flourish here in the utmost luxuriance : from the ve- getables that we found here , there is reafon to conclude , that the winters are milder than those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more ...
... fruit , would flourish here in the utmost luxuriance : from the ve- getables that we found here , there is reafon to conclude , that the winters are milder than those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more ...
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... any quantity . Gourds are alfo cultivated by the natives of this place , the fruit of which furnishes them with veffels for various ufes . We We also found here the Chinese paper mulberry tree , 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... any quantity . Gourds are alfo cultivated by the natives of this place , the fruit of which furnishes them with veffels for various ufes . We We also found here the Chinese paper mulberry tree , 38 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... fruit , except a berry which has neither fweetness nor flavour , and which none but the boys took pains to gather , should be honoured with that appellation . There is , however , a plant that serves the înhabitants instead of hemp and ...
... fruit , except a berry which has neither fweetness nor flavour , and which none but the boys took pains to gather , should be honoured with that appellation . There is , however , a plant that serves the înhabitants instead of hemp and ...
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... fruit that in colour and shape resembled a cherry ; the juice had an agreeable tartnefs , though but little flavour . We found alfo interspersed some of the finest meadows in the world : fome places however were rocky , but these were ...
... fruit that in colour and shape resembled a cherry ; the juice had an agreeable tartnefs , though but little flavour . We found alfo interspersed some of the finest meadows in the world : fome places however were rocky , but these were ...
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