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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... fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level .. At three o'clock in the afternoon , we saw the land extending from N. E. by N .. to N. W. N .; and foon ...
... fires upon it , and at seven in the morning were within about three leagues of the fhore , which appeared to be high , but level .. At three o'clock in the afternoon , we saw the land extending from N. E. by N .. to N. W. N .; and foon ...
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... fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were all the inhabitants , and figns of in- habitants , that we difcovered upon the whole island . Eaheinomauwe has a much better appearance ; it is indeed not only hilly but mountainous , yet even ...
... fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were all the inhabitants , and figns of in- habitants , that we difcovered upon the whole island . Eaheinomauwe has a much better appearance ; it is indeed not only hilly but mountainous , yet even ...
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... fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the most ...
... fire - arms , though loaded only with small shot ; and of our clemency , by our forbearing to make use of weapons fo dreadful except in our defence ; they became at once friend- ly , and even affectionate , placing in us the most ...
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... fire - place , is enclosed in a hollow fquare , by partitions either of wood or stone , and in the middle of it the fire is kindled . The floor , along the infide of the walls , is thickly covered with ftraw , and upon this the family ...
... fire - place , is enclosed in a hollow fquare , by partitions either of wood or stone , and in the middle of it the fire is kindled . The floor , along the infide of the walls , is thickly covered with ftraw , and upon this the family ...
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... is placed floping towards the fire , by fetting one ftone against the bottom of it , and fupporting it near the middle with another , by the moving 3 N 2 of 1770 . March . of which to a greater or ROUND THE WORLD . 459.
... is placed floping towards the fire , by fetting one ftone against the bottom of it , and fupporting it near the middle with another , by the moving 3 N 2 of 1770 . March . of which to a greater or ROUND THE WORLD . 459.
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