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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... Tuesday 13 . Wednef . 14 . Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high and makes in table - points ; it also seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coaft , to judge accurately from ...
... Tuesday 13 . Wednef . 14 . Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high and makes in table - points ; it also seemed to us to form two bays , but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coaft , to judge accurately from ...
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... Tuesday 20 . ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the shore W. by S. and during a courfe of four leagues , our depth of water was from thirty - two to thirteen fathom . 1 When it was thirteen fathom we were but three ...
... Tuesday 20 . ter . At four o'clock the next morning , we ftood in for the shore W. by S. and during a courfe of four leagues , our depth of water was from thirty - two to thirteen fathom . 1 When it was thirteen fathom we were but three ...
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... 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 the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d ...
... 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 the shore , and having water from thirty - five to fifty- three fathom . On the 22d ...
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... Tuesday 27 . latitude was 46 ° 54 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 24 E. At feven in the evening , we made fail under our I courses ; and at eight the next morning fet the topfails close Wednes . 28 , reefed . At noon , our ...
... Tuesday 27 . latitude was 46 ° 54 ′ , and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 24 E. At feven in the evening , we made fail under our I courses ; and at eight the next morning fet the topfails close Wednes . 28 , reefed . At noon , our ...
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... Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the variation , by several azimuths and the amplitude , to be 15 ° 10′E . On the 7th at noon , we were in latitude 47 ° 6 ′ S. Wednes . 7. · and had made twelve miles ...
... Tuesday 6 . as at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the variation , by several azimuths and the amplitude , to be 15 ° 10′E . On the 7th at noon , we were in latitude 47 ° 6 ′ S. Wednes . 7. · and had made twelve miles ...
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