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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... hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a con- fiderable distance . It extends near two leagues to the north- ward , is lofty , and ...
... hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a con- fiderable distance . It extends near two leagues to the north- ward , is lofty , and ...
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... hand : while we were run- ning in , we kept the lead continually going , and had from forty to twelve fathom . At fix o'clock in the evening , we anchored in eleven fathom with a muddy bottom , under the west shore , in the fecond cove ...
... hand : while we were run- ning in , we kept the lead continually going , and had from forty to twelve fathom . At fix o'clock in the evening , we anchored in eleven fathom with a muddy bottom , under the west shore , in the fecond cove ...
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... hand of murder than the sense of duty , or even the fear of pu- nishment . Among those who are accustomed to eat the dead , death must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will ...
... hand of murder than the sense of duty , or even the fear of pu- nishment . Among those who are accustomed to eat the dead , death must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will ...
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... hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of cloth they work borders of different colours , in ftitches , fomewhat like carpeting , or rather like those used in the famplars which girls work at school . These ...
... hand , which must be a very tedious operation . To both these kinds of cloth they work borders of different colours , in ftitches , fomewhat like carpeting , or rather like those used in the famplars which girls work at school . These ...
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... hand for that purpose . Having faid thus much of their workmanship , I shall now give some account of their tools ; they have adzes , axes , and chiffels , which serve them also as augers for the boring of holes as they have no metal ...
... hand for that purpose . Having faid thus much of their workmanship , I shall now give some account of their tools ; they have adzes , axes , and chiffels , which serve them also as augers for the boring of holes as they have no metal ...
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