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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... natives in another . When this island was firft difcovered in the direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told ...
... natives in another . When this island was firft difcovered in the direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they also saw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time , and told ...
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... natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became unfettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth : during the night , it blew with fuch violence ...
... natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became unfettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth : during the night , it blew with fuch violence ...
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... natives foon after he came to an anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General ...
... natives foon after he came to an anchor , in the place to which he gave the name of Murderer's Bay , he never went on fhore . He gave the country the name of STAATEN LAND , or the land of the States , in honour of the States - General ...
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... natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not sure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the whole fouthern island , or only part of it . The figure and ...
... natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not sure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the whole fouthern island , or only part of it . The figure and ...
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... natives , with respect to their dress , is in the fkins and hair of fuch animals as they have , and we never faw the skin of any animal about them but thofe of dogs and birds : there are indeed feals upon the coaft , and we once faw a ...
... natives , with respect to their dress , is in the fkins and hair of fuch animals as they have , and we never faw the skin of any animal about them but thofe of dogs and birds : there are indeed feals upon the coaft , and we once faw a ...
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