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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... steered S. S. E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow fwell ftill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out in the boat , fhot two Port Egmont ...
... steered S. S. E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow fwell ftill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out in the boat , fhot two Port Egmont ...
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... steered N. by E. till eight , when we steered N. E. by E. E. to make the land , which at ten we saw bearing E. N. E. but it being hazy , we could dif- tinguish nothing upon it . At noon , our latitude , by obser- vation , was 46 ° S ...
... steered N. by E. till eight , when we steered N. E. by E. E. to make the land , which at ten we saw bearing E. N. E. but it being hazy , we could dif- tinguish nothing upon it . At noon , our latitude , by obser- vation , was 46 ° S ...
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... steered along the shore , in the direction of N. E. by E. E. at the distance of about three leagues . At fix in the evening , being about one league from the shore , we had feventeen fathom ; and at eight , being about three leagues ...
... steered along the shore , in the direction of N. E. by E. E. at the distance of about three leagues . At fix in the evening , being about one league from the shore , we had feventeen fathom ; and at eight , being about three leagues ...
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... steered north along the fhore till eight , when , being within between two and three leagues , we founded , and had but thirty - four fathom ; upon which we hauled off N. W. by N. till eleven at night , and then brought to , having ...
... steered north along the fhore till eight , when , being within between two and three leagues , we founded , and had but thirty - four fathom ; upon which we hauled off N. W. by N. till eleven at night , and then brought to , having ...
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... steered E. S. E. with all the fail we could fet till it was dark , and then fhortened fail till the morning : as we had thick hazey weather all night , we we kept founding continually , and had from thirty - 430 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... steered E. S. E. with all the fail we could fet till it was dark , and then fhortened fail till the morning : as we had thick hazey weather all night , we we kept founding continually , and had from thirty - 430 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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