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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... twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height , which rises directly ...
... twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height , which rises directly ...
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... twenty - feven leagues ; the fouthern extremity of the land we could fee bore weft , and the land which had been disco- vered in the morning appeared like an island extending from S.S.W. to S. W. by W. W. distant about eight leagues ...
... twenty - feven leagues ; the fouthern extremity of the land we could fee bore weft , and the land which had been disco- vered in the morning appeared like an island extending from S.S.W. to S. W. by W. W. distant about eight leagues ...
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... twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was ...
... twenty - four leagues in compafs : it is fufficiently high to be seen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues , and the land has a broken irregular furface , with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility ; yet it was ...
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... twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth ...
... twenty miles , when feeing no land , nor any figns of any , Saturday 17. but that which we had left , we bore away S. by W. and con- tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ′ , the fouth ...
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... twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednef . 21 . keeping at the distance of between ...
... twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednef . 21 . keeping at the distance of between ...
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