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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... kind we had seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as ...
... kind we had seen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as ...
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... kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country , particularly in Mercury Bay : we continued to ftand close upon a wind to the weftward , and at fun fet the fouthermoft point of land bore N. 38 E. diftant four leagues , and ...
... kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country , particularly in Mercury Bay : we continued to ftand close upon a wind to the weftward , and at fun fet the fouthermoft point of land bore N. 38 E. diftant four leagues , and ...
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... kind of European grain , plants , and 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 ...
... kind of European grain , plants , and 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 ...
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... kind of building , and indeed for every other purpose except mafts ; for which , as I have already obferved , they are too hard , and too hea- vy : there is one in particular which , when we were upon the coaft , was rendered ...
... kind of building , and indeed for every other purpose except mafts ; for which , as I have already obferved , they are too hard , and too hea- vy : there is one in particular which , when we were upon the coaft , was rendered ...
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... kind of creffes , which grew in great abundance upon all parts of the fea - fhore . We alfo , once or twice , met with a plant like what the country people in England call Lamb's quarters , or Fat - hen , which we boiled instead of ...
... kind of creffes , which grew in great abundance upon all parts of the fea - fhore . We alfo , once or twice , met with a plant like what the country people in England call Lamb's quarters , or Fat - hen , which we boiled instead of ...
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