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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... parts of the Couse . Shoals , as were not seen ? ± Places were the Ship anchored The Pricked Line shew's the Ships Track and Collan Figures annexed the depth of Water in Fatherd Explor 217 > 3 BOTANY BAY , in NEW SOUTH WALES .
... parts of the Couse . Shoals , as were not seen ? ± Places were the Ship anchored The Pricked Line shew's the Ships Track and Collan Figures annexed the depth of Water in Fatherd Explor 217 > 3 BOTANY BAY , in NEW SOUTH WALES .
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... shoal water , and we immediately hauled our wind to the N. E. At this time we had feven fathom , at the next caft five , and at the next three , upon which we instantly dropped an anchor , that brought the fhip up . Pier Head , the ...
... shoal water , and we immediately hauled our wind to the N. E. At this time we had feven fathom , at the next caft five , and at the next three , upon which we instantly dropped an anchor , that brought the fhip up . Pier Head , the ...
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... shoal water , having at one time not more than three fathom ; yet we got clear , without casting anchor . At noon we were about two leagues from the main , and four from the islands without us . latitude by obfervation was 20 ° 56 ...
... shoal water , having at one time not more than three fathom ; yet we got clear , without casting anchor . At noon we were about two leagues from the main , and four from the islands without us . latitude by obfervation was 20 ° 56 ...
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... 45 ′ S. and between fix and seven leagues from the main . It is not however the only shoal on this part of the coaft , especially to the north- 4 ward ; 1570 . June . ward ; and at this time 553 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... 45 ′ S. and between fix and seven leagues from the main . It is not however the only shoal on this part of the coaft , especially to the north- 4 ward ; 1570 . June . ward ; and at this time 553 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... shoal Tuesday 12 . is always above water , and has the appearance of white fand : a part also of that upon which we had lain is dry at low water , and in that place confits of fand ftones ; but all the reft of it is a coral rock . While ...
... shoal Tuesday 12 . is always above water , and has the appearance of white fand : a part also of that upon which we had lain is dry at low water , and in that place confits of fand ftones ; but all the reft of it is a coral rock . While ...
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