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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... Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 544 С НА Р. VI . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . CHA P. VII . 557 ...
... Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 544 С НА Р. VI . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the adjacent Country , its Inhabitants , and Pro- ductions . CHA P. VII . 557 ...
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... Ship was refitting . CHA P. XIII . 704 Some Account of Batavia , and the adjacent Country ; with their Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 724 CHA P. XIV . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try ...
... Ship was refitting . CHA P. XIII . 704 Some Account of Batavia , and the adjacent Country ; with their Fruits , Flowers , and other Productions . 724 CHA P. XIV . Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try ...
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... ship , which was between him and the shore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be : in fome pain for him , fearing that he might not fee the ca- noes time enough to reach the ship before they should get up with him : foon ...
... ship , which was between him and the shore ; fo that , it being a dead calm , I began to be : in fome pain for him , fearing that he might not fee the ca- noes time enough to reach the ship before they should get up with him : foon ...
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... ship to be wore , and fteered E. S. E. by compass , in the direction which the land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues ...
... ship to be wore , and fteered E. S. E. by compass , in the direction which the land was faid to bear from us at that time . At noon we were in latitude 44 ° 7 ′ S .; the south point of Banks's Island bearing north , distant five leagues ...
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... ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . 1770 . February . Tuesday 20 . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednes . 21 . keeping at the distance of between four and twelve leagues from ...
... ship would bear , we were driven three leagues to the leeward . 1770 . February . Tuesday 20 . We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next , Wednes . 21 . keeping at the distance of between four and twelve leagues from ...
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