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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... probably had not seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted all his eloquence to ...
... probably had not seen him , as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip . They came within about a stone's caft , and then stopped , gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment : Tupia exerted all his eloquence to ...
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... probably lain there ever fince the creation of the world : a profpect more rude , craggy , and defolate than this country affords from the sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but ...
... probably lain there ever fince the creation of the world : a profpect more rude , craggy , and defolate than this country affords from the sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but ...
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... probably of lefs depth than it appeared to be , for as we found the water shallower here , than at the fame distance from any other part of the coast , there is reason to suppose , that the land at the bottom which lies next the fea is ...
... probably of lefs depth than it appeared to be , for as we found the water shallower here , than at the fame distance from any other part of the coast , there is reason to suppose , that the land at the bottom which lies next the fea is ...
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... probably the fame that in the Account of Lord Anfon's Voyage are faid to have been found at the island of Juan Fernandes , except that , although large , they are not quite equal in fize : they differ from ours in England in feveral ...
... probably the fame that in the Account of Lord Anfon's Voyage are faid to have been found at the island of Juan Fernandes , except that , although large , they are not quite equal in fize : they differ from ours in England in feveral ...
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... probably be lightened by tapping , and it will then make the finest masts in the world : it has a leaf not unlike a yew , and bears berries in small bunches . 2 Great 1770 March . Great part of the country is covered ROUND THE WORL D. 37.
... probably be lightened by tapping , and it will then make the finest masts in the world : it has a leaf not unlike a yew , and bears berries in small bunches . 2 Great 1770 March . Great part of the country is covered ROUND THE WORL D. 37.
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