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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... stood S. W. and continued } 1770 . February : to make fail to the fouthward till funset on the 11th , when Friday 9 : Sunday a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was ...
... stood S. W. and continued } 1770 . February : to make fail to the fouthward till funset on the 11th , when Friday 9 : Sunday a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was ...
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... stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ' S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon ...
... stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ' S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. W. In the afternoon ...
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... stood in to take a nearer view of it : at eleven we were within three leagues of it , but the wind feeming to incline upon the fhore , I tacked and flood off to the fouthward . We had now failed round the land which we had discovered on ...
... stood in to take a nearer view of it : at eleven we were within three leagues of it , but the wind feeming to incline upon the fhore , I tacked and flood off to the fouthward . We had now failed round the land which we had discovered on ...
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... stood to the N. N. W. being then in latitude 47 ° 40'S . longitude 193 ° 50 ′ W. and having a hol- low fea from the S. W. During the night ; we fteered N. N. W. till fix in the morn- ing , when , seeing no land , we steered N. by E ...
... stood to the N. N. W. being then in latitude 47 ° 40'S . longitude 193 ° 50 ′ W. and having a hol- low fea from the S. W. During the night ; we fteered N. N. W. till fix in the morn- ing , when , seeing no land , we steered N. by E ...
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... weftward till two in the morning , Tuesday zeg when we made a trip to the eastward , and afterwards stood weftward till noon , when , by our reckoning , we were in 312 the 1 1770 . March . Wednef . 21 . the ROUND THE WORLD . 427.
... weftward till two in the morning , Tuesday zeg when we made a trip to the eastward , and afterwards stood weftward till noon , when , by our reckoning , we were in 312 the 1 1770 . March . Wednef . 21 . the ROUND THE WORLD . 427.
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