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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... course we Thursday 15. continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the ...
... course we Thursday 15. continued till fix o'clock the next morning , when we had run eleven leagues , but faw no land , except that which we had left . Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze , which veered from the weft to the ...
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... course till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ' , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ′ W. distant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns ...
... course till the next day at noon , when we were in latitude 45 ° 16 ' , the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing N. 6 ° 30 ′ W. distant twenty - eight leagues . The va- riation by the azimuth this morning was 15 ° 30 ′ E. As no figns ...
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... courses ; and at fix the next morning , the fouthermoft land in fight bore Monday 25 , W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ...
... courses ; and at fix the next morning , the fouthermoft land in fight bore Monday 25 , W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ...
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... course to the W. by S. and in two hours we faw high land over the low land , extending to the southward as far as S. W. by S .; but it did not appear to be joined to the land L 8 . 2 " 2 > fand to the northward , fo that there is either ...
... course to the W. by S. and in two hours we faw high land over the low land , extending to the southward as far as S. W. by S .; but it did not appear to be joined to the land L 8 . 2 " 2 > fand to the northward , fo that there is either ...
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... course , during the last four and twenty hours . We continued to fteer along the shore , in the direction of N. E. E. till fix o'clock in the evening , when we brought to Thursday 15. for the night . At four in the morning , we flood in ...
... course , during the last four and twenty hours . We continued to fteer along the shore , in the direction of N. E. E. till fix o'clock in the evening , when we brought to Thursday 15. for the night . At four in the morning , we flood in ...
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abreaſt afhore alfo almoſt alſo anchor appeared Auguft Banks Batavia becauſe befides boat bore Botany Bay breeze Cape Cape Grafton Cape Saunders cloſe coaft coaſt confiderable confifts courſe depth of water diftant diſcovered diſtance Dutch eaſt Endeavour River Engliſh eſpecially faid fame fandy fathom fathom water feemed feen fent feven feveral fhip fhoals fhore fide figns firſt fiſh fituation fmall fome fometimes foon four leagues fouth fouthward freſh fteered ftill ftone fuch houſes Indians inhabitants iſlands land in fight latitude leaſt lefs leſs longitude Mafter miles Monday morning moſt muſt natives night noon northermoft northward o'clock obferved paffage paffed perfons pinnace purpoſe reaſon reſembling round ſaw ſcarcely ſeemed ſeen Semau ſeven ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall ſmoke ſome ſtood thefe themſelves theſe thoſe three leagues Thurſday trees Tueſday turtle uſe Wednef weft weftward weſt wind yawl