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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... till funfet on the 11th , when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat ...
... till funfet on the 11th , when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat ...
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... 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 light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by ...
... 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 light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by ...
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... till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land ...
... till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ' W. diftant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns of land ...
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... till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward ...
... till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W. S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and split the forefail all to pieces : after getting another to the yard , we continued to ftand to the fouthward ...
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... till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and ftood to the northward , having a large swell from the S. W. by W. At noon the ...
... till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and ftood to the northward , having a large swell from the S. W. by W. At noon the ...
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