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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... towns , where young and old , men and women , crowded about us , prompted by the fame curiofity that carried us to look at them , we never faw a fingle person who appeared to have any bodily com- plaint , nor among the numbers that we ...
... towns , where young and old , men and women , crowded about us , prompted by the fame curiofity that carried us to look at them , we never faw a fingle person who appeared to have any bodily com- plaint , nor among the numbers that we ...
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... town , and I fuppofe it to be the joint property alfo : the other net , which is circular , and extended by two or three hoops , has been particularly de- fcribed as well as the manner of baiting and ufing it . Their hooks are of bone ...
... town , and I fuppofe it to be the joint property alfo : the other net , which is circular , and extended by two or three hoops , has been particularly de- fcribed as well as the manner of baiting and ufing it . Their hooks are of bone ...
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... towns or Hippahs of these people , which are all for- tified , have been fufficiently described already , and from the Bay of Plenty to Queen Charlotte's Sound they feem to be the conftant refidence of the people : but about Poverty Bay ...
... towns or Hippahs of these people , which are all for- tified , have been fufficiently described already , and from the Bay of Plenty to Queen Charlotte's Sound they feem to be the conftant refidence of the people : but about Poverty Bay ...
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... towns which we faw in the Bay of Plenty may be his barrier ; especially as at Mercury Bay he was not acknowledged ... town : the nets we faw making in almost every house , and the several parts being afterwards collected were joined ...
... towns which we faw in the Bay of Plenty may be his barrier ; especially as at Mercury Bay he was not acknowledged ... town : the nets we faw making in almost every house , and the several parts being afterwards collected were joined ...
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... Town- fhend . On the south fide of the lake is a ridge of high hills which I was very defirous to climb ; but it being high - water , and the day far spent , I was afraid of being bewildered among the fhoals in the night , especially as ...
... Town- fhend . On the south fide of the lake is a ridge of high hills which I was very defirous to climb ; but it being high - water , and the day far spent , I was afraid of being bewildered among the fhoals in the night , especially as ...
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