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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... many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 . Monday 12 .
... many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land between Cape 5 T 1770 . February . Friday 9 . Sunday 12 . 1770 . February . Sunday 11 . Monday 12 .
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... hills of a confiderable height . It appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W ...
... hills of a confiderable height . It appeared to be totally barren , and we saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W ...
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... hill and valley . In the afternoon , we steered S. W. by S. and S. W. edging in for the land with a fresh gale at north ... hills lying not far from the sea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this place stretches S. by W. and N. by E ...
... hill and valley . In the afternoon , we steered S. W. by S. and S. W. edging in for the land with a fresh gale at north ... hills lying not far from the sea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this place stretches S. by W. and N. by E ...
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... hill , which is a good direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the ... hills which are green and woody ; but we saw no ap- pearance of inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30 W ...
... hill , which is a good direction to it on that quarter . From one league to four leagues north of Cape Saunders , the ... hills which are green and woody ; but we saw no ap- pearance of inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30 W ...
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... hills which fland near the fhore : about three leagues to the northward of it , there is another ledge , which lies full three leagues from the fhore , and on which the fea broke in a dreadful furf . As we paffed these rocks to the ...
... hills which fland near the fhore : about three leagues to the northward of it , there is another ledge , which lies full three leagues from the fhore , and on which the fea broke in a dreadful furf . As we paffed these rocks to the ...
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