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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... thing remarkable : it rifes into hills directly from the fea , and is covered with wood ; but the weather being foggy while we were upon this part of the coaft , we could fee very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the ...
... thing remarkable : it rifes into hills directly from the fea , and is covered with wood ; but the weather being foggy while we were upon this part of the coaft , we could fee very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the ...
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... thing in them which he knew to be ore : if he had had an opportunity to examine any of the bare rocks , perhaps he might have been more fortunate . He was also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral ...
... thing in them which he knew to be ore : if he had had an opportunity to examine any of the bare rocks , perhaps he might have been more fortunate . He was also of opinion that what I had taken for marble in another place , was a mineral ...
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... thing we can make with hemp , that they will not bear a comparison . From the fame plant , by another preparation , they draw long flender fibres which fhine like filk , and are as white as fnow : of thefe , which are alfo furprisingly ...
... thing we can make with hemp , that they will not bear a comparison . From the fame plant , by another preparation , they draw long flender fibres which fhine like filk , and are as white as fnow : of thefe , which are alfo furprisingly ...
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... thing which could incite us to put equal confidence in them . It is alfo remarkable , that when an intercourse was once established between us , they were very rarely detected in any act of dishonesty . Before , indeed , and while they ...
... thing which could incite us to put equal confidence in them . It is alfo remarkable , that when an intercourse was once established between us , they were very rarely detected in any act of dishonesty . Before , indeed , and while they ...
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... thing about them is the oil , with which , like the Islanders , they anoint their hair : it is certainly the fat either of fifh or of birds ,. melted down , and though the better fort have it fresh , their inferiors use that which is ...
... thing about them is the oil , with which , like the Islanders , they anoint their hair : it is certainly the fat either of fifh or of birds ,. melted down , and though the better fort have it fresh , their inferiors use that which is ...
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