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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... northward : in the afternoon , we found the variation to be 16 ° 34 ′ E. At eight in the evening , we tacked and stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our ...
... northward : in the afternoon , we found the variation to be 16 ° 34 ′ E. At eight in the evening , we tacked and stood to the fouthward , with the wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our ...
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... northward , so that there is either water , a deep bay , or low land between them . 1770 . March . At noon on the 6th , we were nearly in the fame fituation Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the ...
... northward , so that there is either water , a deep bay , or low land between them . 1770 . March . At noon on the 6th , we were nearly in the fame fituation Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the ...
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... and at noon , veering to the weft , we tacked and flood to the northward , having no land in fight . Our latitude , by obfervation , was 47 ° 33 ′ S. our longitude , 1 1770 . March . longitude , weft from the 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... and at noon , veering to the weft , we tacked and flood to the northward , having no land in fight . Our latitude , by obfervation , was 47 ° 33 ′ S. our longitude , 1 1770 . March . longitude , weft from the 18 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... north- ward , is lofty , and covered with wood : the land behind it is very different , confifting wholly of mountains , totally barren and rocky ; and this difference gives the Cape the ap- pearance of an island . At At fun - fet , the ...
... north- ward , is lofty , and covered with wood : the land behind it is very different , confifting wholly of mountains , totally barren and rocky ; and this difference gives the Cape the ap- pearance of an island . At At fun - fet , the ...
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... northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 . March . Tuesday 13 . Having brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of N. E. with a moderate breeze at S. S. E. At noon ...
... northward it trends N. N. E. I ' N. 1770 . March . Tuesday 13 . Having brought to for the night , we made fail along the Wednef . 14 . fhore at four in the morning , in the direction of N. E. with a moderate breeze at S. S. E. At noon ...
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