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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... saw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling natives in another . When this island was firft discovered in the direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they alfo faw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was ...
... saw smoke in one place , and a few ftraggling natives in another . When this island was firft discovered in the direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they alfo faw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was ...
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... saw land extending from the S. W. to the N. W. at the distance of about ten leagues , which : we hauled up for . At noon , our latitude by obfervation was 44 ° 38 ' , the fouth east point of Bank's Island bore N. 58 ° 30 ′ E. diftant ...
... saw land extending from the S. W. to the N. W. at the distance of about ten leagues , which : we hauled up for . At noon , our latitude by obfervation was 44 ° 38 ' , the fouth east point of Bank's Island bore N. 58 ° 30 ′ E. diftant ...
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... saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Ifland to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the laft twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ...
... saw no figns of its being inhabited . Our latitude , at noon , was 44 ° 44 ' ; and the longitude which we made from Banks's Ifland to this place was 2 ° 22 ′ W. During the laft twenty - four hours , though we carried as much fail as the ...
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... saw no ap- pearance of inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30W . diftant about four leagues . We had variable winds and calms till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W , S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us ...
... saw no ap- pearance of inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30W . diftant about four leagues . We had variable winds and calms till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W , S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us ...
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... saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark were within three or four miles of it : du- ring the whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore ...
... saw land bearing W. by S. which we fteered for , and be- fore it was dark were within three or four miles of it : du- ring the whole night we saw fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore ...
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