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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... thought they faw land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a ...
... thought they faw land in that quarter . In this course Thursday 15. We continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a ...
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... thought that we had flood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till ...
... thought that we had flood far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had left , judging from the report of the natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound , I hauled to the weftward . We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till ...
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... thought it by no means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of ...
... thought it by no means advisable to put into a place whence I could not have got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did not blow more than one day in a month . In this , however , I acted con- trary to the opinion of ...
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... thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope , with ftill more force , because no discovery of moment could be hoped for in that rout ; it was therefore ...
... thought fufficient for the undertaking : and the fame reason was urged against our proceeding directly for the Cape of Good Hope , with ftill more force , because no discovery of moment could be hoped for in that rout ; it was therefore ...
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... thought to refemble the pitch - pine , may 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 ...
... thought to refemble the pitch - pine , may 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 ...
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