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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... must be shelter from all winds , though poffibly there may not be fufficient depth of water . The north point of this bay , when it bears S. E. by S. is rendered very remarkable by five high peaked rocks which lie off it , and have the ...
... must be shelter from all winds , though poffibly there may not be fufficient depth of water . The north point of this bay , when it bears S. E. by S. is rendered very remarkable by five high peaked rocks which lie off it , and have the ...
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... must have kept in a high fouth- ern latitude in the very depth of winter , with a vessel which was not thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope ...
... must have kept in a high fouth- ern latitude in the very depth of winter , with a vessel which was not thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope ...
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... must be confessed that they do honour to the name . But the highest luxury which the fea afforded us , even in this place , was the lobster or sea cray - fish , which are probably the fame that in the Account of Lord Anfon's Voyage are ...
... must be confessed that they do honour to the name . But the highest luxury which the fea afforded us , even in this place , was the lobster or sea cray - fish , which are probably the fame that in the Account of Lord Anfon's Voyage are ...
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... must be dreadful ; and even among the inha- bitants of the coast , many tribes must frequently be reduced to nearly the fame fituation , either by the failure of their plantations , or the deficiency of their dry flock , during the ...
... must be dreadful ; and even among the inha- bitants of the coast , many tribes must frequently be reduced to nearly the fame fituation , either by the failure of their plantations , or the deficiency of their dry flock , during the ...
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... must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will not be much repug- nance to kill . A fenfe of duty , and fear of punishment , may be more easily furmounted than the feelings of ...
... must have loft much of its horror ; and where there is little horror at the fight of death , there will not be much repug- nance to kill . A fenfe of duty , and fear of punishment , may be more easily furmounted than the feelings of ...
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