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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... Coast of Poenammoo , round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand ...
... Coast of Poenammoo , round Cape South , and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand ...
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... Coast of New Holland , now called New South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 481 CHA P. IV * . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of ...
... Coast of New Holland , now called New South Wales ; various Incidents that happened there ; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- bitants . 481 CHA P. IV * . The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay ; with a farther Account of ...
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... coast of Eahienomauwe . We founded both in the night and this morning , but had no ground with one hundred and fifty fathom . At noon , we faw Cape Saunders bearing N. W .; and our latitude by ob- fervation was 46 ° 31'S . At half an ...
... coast of Eahienomauwe . We founded both in the night and this morning , but had no ground with one hundred and fifty fathom . At noon , we faw Cape Saunders bearing N. W .; and our latitude by ob- fervation was 46 ° 31'S . At half an ...
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... coast , though we plainly discovered the mountains in- land . The sea coast near Cape Weft is low , rifing with an eafy and gradual afcent to the foot of the mountains , and being in moft parts covered with wood . From Point Five ...
... coast , though we plainly discovered the mountains in- land . The sea coast near Cape Weft is low , rifing with an eafy and gradual afcent to the foot of the mountains , and being in moft parts covered with wood . From Point Five ...
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... coast , we could see very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the mountains , towering above the cloudy mifts that obfcured them below , which confirmed my opinion that a chain of mountains extended from one end of the ...
... coast , we could see very little inland , except now and then the fummits of the mountains , towering above the cloudy mifts that obfcured them below , which confirmed my opinion that a chain of mountains extended from one end of the ...
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