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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... breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks ...
... breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the fea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks ...
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... 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 we had a light breeze at N. E. ...
... 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 we had a light breeze at N. E. ...
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... breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight : in the evening , when it became unfettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth during the night , it blew with fuch violence that it brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the : next morning ...
... breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight : in the evening , when it became unfettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth during the night , it blew with fuch violence that it brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the : next morning ...
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... breeze then springing up at E.N.E. we 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 ...
... breeze then springing up at E.N.E. we 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 ...
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... breeze at S. S. E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 ' S. At this time , being about a league and an half from the fhore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row ...
... breeze at S. S. E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 ' S. At this time , being about a league and an half from the fhore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row ...
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