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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... sets them in need of protection , and their temper renders it easy to attach them by kindness ; and whatever may be faid in favour of a savage life , among people who live in luxurious idleness upon the bounty of Nature , civilization ...
... sets them in need of protection , and their temper renders it easy to attach them by kindness ; and whatever may be faid in favour of a savage life , among people who live in luxurious idleness upon the bounty of Nature , civilization ...
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... set out from the fhip , having Tupia of our party . We intended to land where we faw the people , and began to hope that as they had fo little regarded the ship's coming into the bay , they would as little regard our coming on fhore ...
... set out from the fhip , having Tupia of our party . We intended to land where we faw the people , and began to hope that as they had fo little regarded the ship's coming into the bay , they would as little regard our coming on fhore ...
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... set fail from Botany Bay , with a light breeze at N. W. which foon after coming to the fouthward , we fteered along Sunday 6 . the shore N. N. E .; and at noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 33 ° 50 ′ S. At this time we were ...
... set fail from Botany Bay , with a light breeze at N. W. which foon after coming to the fouthward , we fteered along Sunday 6 . the shore N. N. E .; and at noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 33 ° 50 ′ S. At this time we were ...
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... set out with the first of the flood , and long before high- water I had advanced above eight leagues .. Its breadth thus far was from two to five miles , upon a S. W..by S. direction ; but here it opened every way , and formed a large ...
... set out with the first of the flood , and long before high- water I had advanced above eight leagues .. Its breadth thus far was from two to five miles , upon a S. W..by S. direction ; but here it opened every way , and formed a large ...
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... set one for the fick , and the other for ftores and provifions , which were landed in the course of the day . We also landed all the empty water cafks , and part of the ftores . As foon as the tent for the fick was got ready for their ...
... set one for the fick , and the other for ftores and provifions , which were landed in the course of the day . We also landed all the empty water cafks , and part of the ftores . As foon as the tent for the fick was got ready for their ...
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