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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... seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coaft , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than ...
... seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coaft , to judge accurately from appearances . The wind having been variable , with calms , we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than ...
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... seemed to be a very safe and convenient harbour , formed by an island , which lay in the middle of the opening at eaft . The opening lies in lati- tude 45 ° 16′S . and on the land behind it are mountains , the fummits of which were ...
... seemed to be a very safe and convenient harbour , formed by an island , which lay in the middle of the opening at eaft . The opening lies in lati- tude 45 ° 16′S . and on the land behind it are mountains , the fummits of which were ...
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... seemed to be fo well digefted , and in so fair a way of being perfectly healed , that if I had not known no application had been made to it , I should certainly have en-- quired , with a very interested curiofity , after the vulnerary ...
... seemed to be fo well digefted , and in so fair a way of being perfectly healed , that if I had not known no application had been made to it , I should certainly have en-- quired , with a very interested curiofity , after the vulnerary ...
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... seemed to have false eyes , and ornaments in their ears as if alive . That which Mr. Banks bought was fold with great reluc- tance by the poffeffor : the head was manifeftly that of a young perfon about fourteen or fifteen years of age ...
... seemed to have false eyes , and ornaments in their ears as if alive . That which Mr. Banks bought was fold with great reluc- tance by the poffeffor : the head was manifeftly that of a young perfon about fourteen or fifteen years of age ...
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... seemed to wait for our landing ; but to our great regret , when we came with- in about a quarter of a mile , they ran away into the woods : we determined however to go afhore , and endeavour to pro- cure an interview , but in this we ...
... seemed to wait for our landing ; but to our great regret , when we came with- in about a quarter of a mile , they ran away into the woods : we determined however to go afhore , and endeavour to pro- cure an interview , but in this we ...
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