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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... 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 distance of twelve or ...
... 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 distance of twelve or ...
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... 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 leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand ...
... 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 leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand ...
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... . This point I named CAPE SAUNDERS , in honour of Sir Charles . Our latitude was 45 ° 35 ′ S. , and longitude 189 ° 4 ′ W. By the latitude , and the angles angles that are made by the coaft , this point 14 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... . This point I named CAPE SAUNDERS , in honour of Sir Charles . Our latitude was 45 ° 35 ′ S. , and longitude 189 ° 4 ′ W. By the latitude , and the angles angles that are made by the coaft , this point 14 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 24 ′ E. At feven in the evening , we made fail under our courses ; and at eight the next morning fet the topfails clofe Wednes . 28 . reefed . At noon , our latitude was 47 ° 43 ′ , and our longi- tude ...
... longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 24 ′ E. At feven in the evening , we made fail under our courses ; and at eight the next morning fet the topfails clofe Wednes . 28 . reefed . At noon , our latitude was 47 ° 43 ′ , and our longi- tude ...
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... longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and ftood to the ...
... longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and ftood to the ...
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