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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... wood not only in the vallies , but upon the highest ground , yet we faw no ap- pearance of its being inhabited . We continued to fland to the S. W. by S. till eleven o'clock Monday 12 . the next morning , when the wind fhifted to the ...
... wood not only in the vallies , but upon the highest ground , yet we faw no ap- pearance of its being inhabited . We continued to fland to the S. W. by S. till eleven o'clock Monday 12 . the next morning , when the wind fhifted to the ...
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... wood : the land behind it is very different , confifting wholly of mountains , totally barren and rocky ; and this difference gives the Cape the ap- pearance of an island . At At fun - fet , the fouthermoft land in fight 20 LIEUTENANT ...
... wood : the land behind it is very different , confifting wholly of mountains , totally barren and rocky ; and this difference gives the Cape the ap- pearance of an island . At At fun - fet , the fouthermoft land in fight 20 LIEUTENANT ...
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... wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ' , there is a narrow ridge of hills that rises directly from the fea , and is covered with wood : clofe behind thefe hills are the mountains , extending in another ridge of a ...
... wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ' , there is a narrow ridge of hills that rises directly from the fea , and is covered with wood : clofe behind thefe hills are the mountains , extending in another ridge of a ...
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... wood , but it is very probable that the ground , 1in many places , is fwampy , and interspersed with pools of water . From latitude 42 ° 8 ' , to 41 ° 30 , the land is not diftinguished by any thing remarkable : it rifes into hills ...
... wood , but it is very probable that the ground , 1in many places , is fwampy , and interspersed with pools of water . From latitude 42 ° 8 ' , to 41 ° 30 , the land is not diftinguished by any thing remarkable : it rifes into hills ...
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... wood , while the long - boat was em- ployed in landing the empty casks . In this employment we were bufy till the 30th , when the wind feeming to fettle at S. E. and our water being nearly completed , we warped the fhip out of the cove ...
... wood , while the long - boat was em- ployed in landing the empty casks . In this employment we were bufy till the 30th , when the wind feeming to fettle at S. E. and our water being nearly completed , we warped the fhip out of the cove ...
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