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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... River . 140 CHA P. IV . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . 153 CHAP . V. Departure from Endeavour River ; a particular Defcription ...
... River . 140 CHA P. IV . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . 153 CHAP . V. Departure from Endeavour River ; a particular Defcription ...
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... river , even as far up as I went with the boat , fhould draw , because this depends upon the depth of water that is upon the bar , or flats , which lie before the narrow part of the river , for I had no opportunity to make myself ...
... river , even as far up as I went with the boat , fhould draw , because this depends upon the depth of water that is upon the bar , or flats , which lie before the narrow part of the river , for I had no opportunity to make myself ...
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... river : we had here thirty - four fa- thom water , and a fine fandy bottom : this alone would have produced the change that had been obferved in the colour of the water ; and it was by no means neceffary to fuppofe a river to account ...
... river : we had here thirty - four fa- thom water , and a fine fandy bottom : this alone would have produced the change that had been obferved in the colour of the water ; and it was by no means neceffary to fuppofe a river to account ...
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... river , or inlet of fhallow water , in the bottom of the deep bay , to the fouthward of us , whither thefe birds reforted to feed in the day , and that not far to the northward there were fome iflands to which they repaired in the night ...
... river , or inlet of fhallow water , in the bottom of the deep bay , to the fouthward of us , whither thefe birds reforted to feed in the day , and that not far to the northward there were fome iflands to which they repaired in the night ...
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... river , or inlet running up the country , the rather as we had paffed two places which had the appearance of being fuch ; but our depth of water was too little to encourage me to venture where I fhould probably have lefs . We had not ...
... river , or inlet running up the country , the rather as we had paffed two places which had the appearance of being fuch ; but our depth of water was too little to encourage me to venture where I fhould probably have lefs . We had not ...
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