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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... land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant ...
... land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant ...
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... land in fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o ... land in fight bore S. W. W .; and fome low land that appeared like an island , and lay close under the foot of the ridge ...
... land in fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. L 2 At eight o ... land in fight bore S. W. W .; and fome low land that appeared like an island , and lay close under the foot of the ridge ...
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... air of perfect confidence and good - will . From the behaviour of our last visitors , I gave the land from which they had put VOL . III . B. off , 1770 . February . Wednef . 14 . 1770 . February . Wednef . 14 . off , ROUND THE WORLD . 9.
... air of perfect confidence and good - will . From the behaviour of our last visitors , I gave the land from which they had put VOL . III . B. off , 1770 . February . Wednef . 14 . 1770 . February . Wednef . 14 . off , ROUND THE WORLD . 9.
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... land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which ...
... land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which ...
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... land we had been ftanding for was an ifland , was confirmed , by our seeing part of the land of Tovy Poenammoo open to the weftward of it , extending as far as W. by S. At eight in the morning , the extremes of the island bore N. 76 W ...
... land we had been ftanding for was an ifland , was confirmed , by our seeing part of the land of Tovy Poenammoo open to the weftward of it , extending as far as W. by S. At eight in the morning , the extremes of the island bore N. 76 W ...
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