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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... wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the fnowy mountain S. 83 W. At noon on the 13th , we ...
... wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41 ° 52 ' , Cape Pallifer then bearing north , distant about five leagues ; and the fnowy mountain S. 83 W. At noon on the 13th , we ...
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... wind from the fame quarter , we kept plying be- tween seven and fifteen leagues from the shore , having from seventy to forty - four fathom . At noon , our latitude by observation was 44 ° 40 ′ S. and our longitude from Banks's ifland 1 ...
... wind from the fame quarter , we kept plying be- tween seven and fifteen leagues from the shore , having from seventy to forty - four fathom . At noon , our latitude by observation was 44 ° 40 ′ S. and our longitude from Banks's ifland 1 ...
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... wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as far as S. W. by S. and steered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 45 ° 22 ′ S .; and the land , which ...
... wind freshened , and before noon we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we saw the land extending as far as S. W. by S. and steered directly for it . At noon , we were in latitude 45 ° 22 ′ S .; and the land , which ...
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... winds ; but my defire of getting to the fouthward , in order to afcertain whether this country was an island or a ... wind at S. W. and had a very distinct view of it : it is of a moderate height , and the furface is broken by many ...
... winds ; but my defire of getting to the fouthward , in order to afcertain whether this country was an island or a ... wind at S. W. and had a very distinct view of it : it is of a moderate height , and the furface is broken by many ...
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... wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and ...
... wind at west . At noon this day , our latitude by account was 47 ° 52 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8 ' E. We stood to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and ...
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