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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... whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level . At three o'clock in the afternoon , we faw the land extending from N. E. by N. to ...
... whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level . At three o'clock in the afternoon , we faw the land extending from N. E. by N. to ...
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... whole coaft , I called it WEST CAPE . It lies about three leagues to the southward of Dusky Bay , in the latitude of 45 ° 54 ′ S. and in the longitude of 193 ° 17 ′ W. The land of this Cape is of a moderate height next the sea , and has ...
... whole coaft , I called it WEST CAPE . It lies about three leagues to the southward of Dusky Bay , in the latitude of 45 ° 54 ′ S. and in the longitude of 193 ° 17 ′ W. The land of this Cape is of a moderate height next the sea , and has ...
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... whole of the north west coast of Tovy Poenammoo , I fhall give fome account of the face of the country . I. ... I have already observed , that on the 11th , when we were off the fouthern part , the land then feen was craggy and ...
... whole of the north west coast of Tovy Poenammoo , I fhall give fome account of the face of the country . I. ... I have already observed , that on the 11th , when we were off the fouthern part , the land then feen was craggy and ...
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... whole country , it be- came neceffary to think of quitting it ; but as I had thirty tons of empty water cafks on board , this could not be done till I had filled them : I therefore hauled round the island , rand entered a bay , which ...
... whole country , it be- came neceffary to think of quitting it ; but as I had thirty tons of empty water cafks on board , this could not be done till I had filled them : I therefore hauled round the island , rand entered a bay , which ...
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... whole of this country , except that part of the coast which was feen by Tasman from on board his ship ; has from his time , to the voyage of the Endeavour , remained altogether unknown , it has by many been fuppofed to be . part of a ...
... whole of this country , except that part of the coast which was feen by Tasman from on board his ship ; has from his time , to the voyage of the Endeavour , remained altogether unknown , it has by many been fuppofed to be . part of a ...
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