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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... same substance to powder , and , with this , grinding two pieces against each other . 1770 . March . Their nets , particularly their feine , which is of an enor- Nets . mous fize , have been mentioned already : one of these seems to be ...
... same substance to powder , and , with this , grinding two pieces against each other . 1770 . March . Their nets , particularly their feine , which is of an enor- Nets . mous fize , have been mentioned already : one of these seems to be ...
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Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq John Hawkesworth. 1 1770 . March the same manner , and inlaid with.
Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq John Hawkesworth. 1 1770 . March the same manner , and inlaid with.
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... same time they brandish their spears , shake their darts , and cleave the air with their Patoo - Patoos . This horrid dance is always . accompanied by a fong ; it is wild indeed , but not disagree- able , and every strain ends in a loud ...
... same time they brandish their spears , shake their darts , and cleave the air with their Patoo - Patoos . This horrid dance is always . accompanied by a fong ; it is wild indeed , but not disagree- able , and every strain ends in a loud ...
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... same re- lief . At noon , our latitude was 15 ° 26 ' S. During all the reft of this day , and the whole night , it blew too fresh for us to venture from our anchor and run into the harbour ; and for › Our 1770 . June . Thursday 14 . our ...
... same re- lief . At noon , our latitude was 15 ° 26 ' S. During all the reft of this day , and the whole night , it blew too fresh for us to venture from our anchor and run into the harbour ; and for › Our 1770 . June . Thursday 14 . our ...
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... same share as myself ; and I think every commander , in fuch a voyage as this , will find it his intereft to follow the fame rule . In feveral parts of the fandy beaches , and fand hills near the fea , we found purslain , and a kind of ...
... same share as myself ; and I think every commander , in fuch a voyage as this , will find it his intereft to follow the fame rule . In feveral parts of the fandy beaches , and fand hills near the fea , we found purslain , and a kind of ...
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