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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... returned , and we then per- ceived that he had left the rock only to fetch a fhield or tar- get for his defence . As foon as he came up , he threw a lance at us , and his comrade another ; they fell where we VOL . III . flood M 1 1770 ...
... returned , and we then per- ceived that he had left the rock only to fetch a fhield or tar- get for his defence . As foon as he came up , he threw a lance at us , and his comrade another ; they fell where we VOL . III . flood M 1 1770 ...
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... returned between three and four o'clock , and having dined on board , we went ashore again at the watering - place , where a party of men were filling casks . Mr. Gore , the Second Lieutenant , had been fent out in the morning with a ...
... returned between three and four o'clock , and having dined on board , we went ashore again at the watering - place , where a party of men were filling casks . Mr. Gore , the Second Lieutenant , had been fent out in the morning with a ...
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... returned to the boat , we faw fome fmoke upon upon another part of the coast , and went thither in hopes of meeting with the people , but at our approach , these also ran away . We found fix fmall canoes , and fix fires very near the ...
... returned to the boat , we faw fome fmoke upon upon another part of the coast , and went thither in hopes of meeting with the people , but at our approach , these also ran away . We found fix fmall canoes , and fix fires very near the ...
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... returned Friday 4 . to the fhip . In the evening , Mr. Banks made a little excur- fion with his gun , and found fuch a number of quails , re- fembling those in England , that he might have shot as many as he pleased ; but his object was ...
... returned Friday 4 . to the fhip . In the evening , Mr. Banks made a little excur- fion with his gun , and found fuch a number of quails , re- fembling those in England , that he might have shot as many as he pleased ; but his object was ...
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... returned to the boat , we found that our people had caught with the feine a great number of small fish , which are well known in the West Indies , and which our failors call Leather jackets , because their skin is remarkably thick . I ...
... returned to the boat , we found that our people had caught with the feine a great number of small fish , which are well known in the West Indies , and which our failors call Leather jackets , because their skin is remarkably thick . I ...
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