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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... means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of some perfons on ...
... means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of some perfons on ...
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... means of the river , fettlements might be extended , and a communication established with the inland parts of the country : veffels might be built of the fine timber which abounds in these parts , at very little trouble and expence ...
... means of the river , fettlements might be extended , and a communication established with the inland parts of the country : veffels might be built of the fine timber which abounds in these parts , at very little trouble and expence ...
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... means end with the neceffity that produced it : after the practice has been once begun on one fide by hun- ger , it will naturally be adopted on the other by revenge . Nor is this all , for though it may be pretended , by fome who wish ...
... means end with the neceffity that produced it : after the practice has been once begun on one fide by hun- ger , it will naturally be adopted on the other by revenge . Nor is this all , for though it may be pretended , by fome who wish ...
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... means to make an advantage of us ; and would , therefore , when they had received the price of any thing they had offered to fell , pack up both the pur- chafe and the purchase - money with all poffible composure , as fo much lawful ...
... means to make an advantage of us ; and would , therefore , when they had received the price of any thing they had offered to fell , pack up both the pur- chafe and the purchase - money with all poffible composure , as fo much lawful ...
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... means be a witness of what paffes be-- tween you . " I have already obferved , that in perfonal cleanliness they are not quite equal to our friends at Otaheite ; because , not having the advantage of fo warm a climate , they do not fo ...
... means be a witness of what paffes be-- tween you . " I have already obferved , that in perfonal cleanliness they are not quite equal to our friends at Otaheite ; because , not having the advantage of fo warm a climate , they do not fo ...
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