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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... boat a fhooting , we faw , with our glaffes , four double canoes , hav- ing on board fifty - feven men , put off from that fhore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the fhip , with respect ...
... boat a fhooting , we faw , with our glaffes , four double canoes , hav- ing on board fifty - feven men , put off from that fhore , and make towards him : we immediately made fignals for him to come on board ; but the fhip , with respect ...
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... boat , fhot two Port Egmont hens , which were in every refpect the fame as those that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few ...
... boat , fhot two Port Egmont hens , which were in every refpect the fame as those that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few ...
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... boat , and went on fhore to look for a watering - place , and a proper birth for the fhip , both which I found , much to my fatisfaction . As soon as the ship was moored , I sent an offi- cer on fhore to fuperintend the watering , and ...
... boat , and went on fhore to look for a watering - place , and a proper birth for the fhip , both which I found , much to my fatisfaction . As soon as the ship was moored , I sent an offi- cer on fhore to fuperintend the watering , and ...
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... boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a still more ample supply ; fo that both times when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mess in the ship , that ...
... boats , with hook and line , near the rocks , could take fish in any quantity ; and the feine feldom failed of producing a still more ample supply ; fo that both times when we anchored in Cook's Streight , every mess in the ship , that ...
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... boat , fhould draw , because this depends upon the depth of water that is upon the bar , or flats , which lie before the narrow part of the river , for I had no opportunity to make myself acquainted with them ; but I am of opinion ...
... boat , fhould draw , because this depends upon the depth of water that is upon the bar , or flats , which lie before the narrow part of the river , for I had no opportunity to make myself acquainted with them ; but I am of opinion ...
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