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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... observation of the fun and moon which was made this morning : it is of a circular figure , and about twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a ...
... observation of the fun and moon which was made this morning : it is of a circular figure , and about twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a ...
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... observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow fea all the afternoon ; and at feven in the evening , we lay to under our forefail , with the fhip's head to the fouthward : at noon on the 27th ...
... observation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow fea all the afternoon ; and at feven in the evening , we lay to under our forefail , with the fhip's head to the fouthward : at noon on the 27th ...
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... observation , was 43 ° 4 ' S. and our longitude from Cape Weft 4 ° 12 ′ E. We observed , that the vallies as well as the mountains were this morning covered with fnow , part of which we supposed to have fallen during the night , when we ...
... observation , was 43 ° 4 ' S. and our longitude from Cape Weft 4 ° 12 ′ E. We observed , that the vallies as well as the mountains were this morning covered with fnow , part of which we supposed to have fallen during the night , when we ...
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... observed , that on the 11th , when we were off the fouthern part , the land then feen was craggy and mountainous , and there is great reason to believe that the fame ridge of mountains extends nearly the whole length of the island ...
... observed , that on the 11th , when we were off the fouthern part , the land then feen was craggy and mountainous , and there is great reason to believe that the fame ridge of mountains extends nearly the whole length of the island ...
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... observed before , was sent out by the Royal Society , to obferve the tranfit of Venus in the South Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet ...
... observed before , was sent out by the Royal Society , to obferve the tranfit of Venus in the South Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the southermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet ...
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