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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... Such particulars of this country and its inhabitants , with their manners and customs , as could be learnt while we were circumnavigating the coaft , fhall now be related . СНАР . I CHA P. VIII . A general Account of New 434 LIEUTENANT ...
... Such particulars of this country and its inhabitants , with their manners and customs , as could be learnt while we were circumnavigating the coaft , fhall now be related . СНАР . I CHA P. VIII . A general Account of New 434 LIEUTENANT ...
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... such weeds as they could find , and when they came out , even with this veil , we could perceive that their modesty suffered much pain by our pre- fence . The girdle and apron which they wear in common , have been mentioned before ...
... such weeds as they could find , and when they came out , even with this veil , we could perceive that their modesty suffered much pain by our pre- fence . The girdle and apron which they wear in common , have been mentioned before ...
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... such a purpose . Their houses are the most inartificially made of any thing among them , being fcarcely equal , except in fize , to an English dog - kennel : they are feldom more than eighteen or twenty feet long , eight or ten broad ...
... such a purpose . Their houses are the most inartificially made of any thing among them , being fcarcely equal , except in fize , to an English dog - kennel : they are feldom more than eighteen or twenty feet long , eight or ten broad ...
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... such exactness , that I have often heard above an hundred paddles ftruck against the fides of their boats at once , fo as to produce but a fingle found , at the divifions of their music . A fong not altogether unlike this , they ...
... such exactness , that I have often heard above an hundred paddles ftruck against the fides of their boats at once , fo as to produce but a fingle found , at the divifions of their music . A fong not altogether unlike this , they ...
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... such land ; for if he had , he would cer- tainly have failed fouthward in search of it , and if he had fought , fuppofing the figns to have been indubitable , he must have found : the discovery of a southern continent was the ultimate ...
... such land ; for if he had , he would cer- tainly have failed fouthward in search of it , and if he had fought , fuppofing the figns to have been indubitable , he must have found : the discovery of a southern continent was the ultimate ...
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