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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... less distinguished than any other . The skins of these people , however , are not only dyed , but painted , for , as I have before observed , they smear their bo- dies with red oker , fome rubbing it on dry , and fome apply- ing it in ...
... less distinguished than any other . The skins of these people , however , are not only dyed , but painted , for , as I have before observed , they smear their bo- dies with red oker , fome rubbing it on dry , and fome apply- ing it in ...
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... less than twenty feet long : fome of the smaller fort have outriggers , and fometimes two of them are joined together , but this is not common . The carving upon the ftern and head ornaments of the inferior boats , which feem to be ...
... less than twenty feet long : fome of the smaller fort have outriggers , and fometimes two of them are joined together , but this is not common . The carving upon the ftern and head ornaments of the inferior boats , which feem to be ...
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... less any thing which , in his opinion , was a known or indubitable fign of such land ; for if he had , he would cer- tainly have failed fouthward in fearch of it , and if he had fought , fuppofing the figns to have been indubitable , he ...
... less any thing which , in his opinion , was a known or indubitable fign of such land ; for if he had , he would cer- tainly have failed fouthward in fearch of it , and if he had fought , fuppofing the figns to have been indubitable , he ...
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... less than twelve hundred leagues diftant . Thus have I given my reasons for thinking that there is no continent to the northward of latitude 40 ° S .; of what may lie farther to the southward than 40 ° I can give no opinion ; but I am ...
... less than twelve hundred leagues diftant . Thus have I given my reasons for thinking that there is no continent to the northward of latitude 40 ° S .; of what may lie farther to the southward than 40 ° I can give no opinion ; but I am ...
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... vifited . Tupia from time to time gave us an account of about one hundred and thirty , and in a chart drawn by his own hand , he actu- ally laid down no less than seventy - four . AN 32 : 3 2 3 co or 2 3 3 76 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE .
... vifited . Tupia from time to time gave us an account of about one hundred and thirty , and in a chart drawn by his own hand , he actu- ally laid down no less than seventy - four . AN 32 : 3 2 3 co or 2 3 3 76 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE .
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