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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... sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them , and as I was unwilling to run to lee- ward , I tacked and ...
... sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them , and as I was unwilling to run to lee- ward , I tacked and ...
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... sea to a ftupendous height , and this indeed was the rea- fon why I did not carry the ship into it , for no wind could blow there but right in , or right out , in the direction of either east or weft , and I thought it by no means ...
... sea to a ftupendous height , and this indeed was the rea- fon why I did not carry the ship into it , for no wind could blow there but right in , or right out , in the direction of either east or weft , and I thought it by no means ...
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... sea coast near Cape Weft is low , rifing with an eafy and gradual afcent to the foot of the mountains , and being in moft parts covered with wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ' there is a narrow ridge of hills ...
... sea coast near Cape Weft is low , rifing with an eafy and gradual afcent to the foot of the mountains , and being in moft parts covered with wood . From Point Five Fingers , down to latitude 44 ° 20 ' there is a narrow ridge of hills ...
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... Seas . rate . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the fouthermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not sure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the ...
... Seas . rate . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the fouthermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not sure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the ...
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... Sea islands make their cloth ; but it is fo fcarce , that though the New Zealanders also make cloth of it , they have not enough for any other purpose than to wear as an ornament in the holes which they make in their ears , as I have ...
... Sea islands make their cloth ; but it is fo fcarce , that though the New Zealanders also make cloth of it , they have not enough for any other purpose than to wear as an ornament in the holes which they make in their ears , as I have ...
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