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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... those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more equally warm ; fo that if this country fhould be fettled by people from Europe , they would , with a little industry , be very foon fupplied not only with the ...
... those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more equally warm ; fo that if this country fhould be fettled by people from Europe , they would , with a little industry , be very foon fupplied not only with the ...
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... those of Europe , to be called the fame , by those who have not examined them very nicely , Here are also hawks , owls , and quails , which differ but little from those of Europe at first sight ; and several small birds , whose fong ...
... those of Europe , to be called the fame , by those who have not examined them very nicely , Here are also hawks , owls , and quails , which differ but little from those of Europe at first sight ; and several small birds , whose fong ...
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... those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole fhip's company , especially to the fouthward : when we lay at anchor ...
... those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole fhip's company , especially to the fouthward : when we lay at anchor ...
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... those who hall hereafter vifit this coaft will not fail to find the advan- tage ; and shell - fish in great variety , particularly clams , cockles , and oysters . • P & c . 1770 . March . Among the vegetable productions of this country ...
... those who hall hereafter vifit this coaft will not fail to find the advan- tage ; and shell - fish in great variety , particularly clams , cockles , and oysters . • P & c . 1770 . March . Among the vegetable productions of this country ...
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... those that appeared to be the wild produce of the country ; and we could find but three efculent plants among thofe which are raised by cultivation , yams , fweet potatoes , and coccos . Of the yams and potatoes there are plantations ...
... those that appeared to be the wild produce of the country ; and we could find but three efculent plants among thofe which are raised by cultivation , yams , fweet potatoes , and coccos . Of the yams and potatoes there are plantations ...
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