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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... latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the fnowy mountain S. 83 W. At noon on the 13th , we found ourselves in the latitude of 42 ° 2 ́S .; Cape Pallifer bearing N. 20 E. diftant eight ...
... latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the fnowy mountain S. 83 W. At noon on the 13th , we found ourselves in the latitude of 42 ° 2 ́S .; Cape Pallifer bearing N. 20 E. diftant eight ...
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... latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at N. E. with which we steered weft , edging in for the land , which was ...
... latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at N. E. with which we steered weft , edging in for the land , which was ...
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... latitude 43 ° 32 ′ S. and in longitude 186 ° 30 ' W. by an observation of the fun and moon which was made this morning : it is of a circular figure , and about twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the ...
... latitude 43 ° 32 ′ S. and in longitude 186 ° 30 ' W. by an observation of the fun and moon which was made this morning : it is of a circular figure , and about twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the ...
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... latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land had yet appeared to the fouthward , and as I ...
... latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land had yet appeared to the fouthward , and as I ...
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... latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the last twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ship would bear , we were driven three ...
... latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Island to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the last twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ship would bear , we were driven three ...
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