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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... hundred and fifty fathom . At noon , we faw Cape Saunders bearing N. W .; and our latitude by ob- servation was 46 ° 31'S . At half an hour past one o'clock , we saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark ...
... hundred and fifty fathom . At noon , we faw Cape Saunders bearing N. W .; and our latitude by ob- servation was 46 ° 31'S . At half an hour past one o'clock , we saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark ...
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... hundred fpecies , that have hitherto been described by any botanists , or had been feen elsewhere during the course of this voyage , except about five or fix which had been gathered at Terra del Fuego . Of eatable vegetables there are ...
... hundred fpecies , that have hitherto been described by any botanists , or had been feen elsewhere during the course of this voyage , except about five or fix which had been gathered at Terra del Fuego . Of eatable vegetables there are ...
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... hundred , which at firft fight appeared to be exactly the fame , no two were , upon a close examination , found to be alike . We observed , that the quantity and form of these marks were different in different parts of the coast , and ...
... hundred , which at firft fight appeared to be exactly the fame , no two were , upon a close examination , found to be alike . We observed , that the quantity and form of these marks were different in different parts of the coast , and ...
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... hundred armed men . We measured one which lay afhore at Tolaga : fhe was fixty- ́eight feet and an half long , five feet broad , and three feet and an half deep ; the bottom was fharp , with strait fides like a wedge , and consisted of ...
... hundred armed men . We measured one which lay afhore at Tolaga : fhe was fixty- ́eight feet and an half long , five feet broad , and three feet and an half deep ; the bottom was fharp , with strait fides like a wedge , and consisted of ...
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... hundred paddles ftruck against the fides of their boats at once , fo as to produce but a single found , at the divifions of their music . A fong not altogether unlike this , they fometimes fing without the dance , and as a peaceable ...
... hundred paddles ftruck against the fides of their boats at once , fo as to produce but a single found , at the divifions of their music . A fong not altogether unlike this , they fometimes fing without the dance , and as a peaceable ...
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