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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... o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ...
... o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ...
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... o'clock in the evening , a breeze sprung up at S. S. W. with which I ftretched off fouth eaft , becaufe fome on board thought they faw land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning ...
... o'clock in the evening , a breeze sprung up at S. S. W. with which I ftretched off fouth eaft , becaufe fome on board thought they faw land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning ...
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... o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were ...
... o'clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were ...
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... o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward under two ...
... o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward under two ...
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... o'clock , we saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark were within three or four miles of it : du- ring the whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues ...
... o'clock , we saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark were within three or four miles of it : du- ring the whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues ...
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