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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... use only in diving , and not to accelerate their motion even upon the furface of the water , may , perhaps with equal propriety , be called ' fins . Neither are infects in greater plenty than birds : a few butterflies and beetles ...
... use only in diving , and not to accelerate their motion even upon the furface of the water , may , perhaps with equal propriety , be called ' fins . Neither are infects in greater plenty than birds : a few butterflies and beetles ...
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... use of the mill - wright . There is another which grows in the fwamps , remarkably tall and strait , thick enough to make mafts for veffels of any fize , and , if a judgment may be formed by the direction of its grain , very tough ...
... use of the mill - wright . There is another which grows in the fwamps , remarkably tall and strait , thick enough to make mafts for veffels of any fize , and , if a judgment may be formed by the direction of its grain , very tough ...
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... use of our fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the ...
... use of our fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the ...
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... use that which is rancid , and confequently are al- moft as difagreeable to the smell as a Hottentot ; neither are their heads free from vermin , though we observed that they were furnished with combs , both of bone and wood : thefe ...
... use that which is rancid , and confequently are al- moft as difagreeable to the smell as a Hottentot ; neither are their heads free from vermin , though we observed that they were furnished with combs , both of bone and wood : thefe ...
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... use of those who frequently fleep in the open air , without any other fhelter from the rain . But befides this courfe fhag or thatch , they have two forts of cloth , which have an even furface , and are very ingeni- ously made , in the ...
... use of those who frequently fleep in the open air , without any other fhelter from the rain . But befides this courfe fhag or thatch , they have two forts of cloth , which have an even furface , and are very ingeni- ously made , in the ...
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