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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... houses are the most inartificially made of any thing Houfes among them , being fcarcely equal , except in fize , to an English dog - kennel : they are seldom more than eighteen : or twenty feet long , eight or ten broad , and five or ...
... houses are the most inartificially made of any thing Houfes among them , being fcarcely equal , except in fize , to an English dog - kennel : they are seldom more than eighteen : or twenty feet long , eight or ten broad , and five or ...
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... houses enclosed within a court yard , the walls of which are constructed of poles and hay , and are about ten or twelve feet high . When we were on fhore in the diftrict called Tolaga , we faw the ruins , or rather the frame of a house ...
... houses enclosed within a court yard , the walls of which are constructed of poles and hay , and are about ten or twelve feet high . When we were on fhore in the diftrict called Tolaga , we faw the ruins , or rather the frame of a house ...
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... houses they are so well defended from the inclemency of the weather , feem to be quite indifferent whether they have any shelter at all during their excurfions in fearch of fern roots and fish , fometimes . fetting up a small shade to ...
... houses they are so well defended from the inclemency of the weather , feem to be quite indifferent whether they have any shelter at all during their excurfions in fearch of fern roots and fish , fometimes . fetting up a small shade to ...
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... house , and the several parts being afterwards collected were joined together . Lefs account feems to be made of the women here than in the South Sea iflands ; fuch at least was the opinion of Tupia , who complained of it as an ...
... house , and the several parts being afterwards collected were joined together . Lefs account feems to be made of the women here than in the South Sea iflands ; fuch at least was the opinion of Tupia , who complained of it as an ...
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... HOUSE , bore N. 32 ° 30 ' W. and a fmall low ifland , which lay clofe under the fhore , bore N. W. diftant about two or three : leagues . When I first discovered this ifland , in the morn- ing , I was in hopes , from its appearance ...
... HOUSE , bore N. 32 ° 30 ' W. and a fmall low ifland , which lay clofe under the fhore , bore N. W. diftant about two or three : leagues . When I first discovered this ifland , in the morn- ing , I was in hopes , from its appearance ...
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