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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... fresh 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 ...
... fresh 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 ...
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... fresh gale sprung up at N. E. and we fteered S. W. by W. for the southermoft land in fight , which at funfet bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. 1 ན་ 1 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having ...
... fresh gale sprung up at N. E. and we fteered S. W. by W. for the southermoft land in fight , which at funfet bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ' E. 1 ན་ 1 2 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having ...
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... fresh breeze at north : at eight in the evening , we had run eleven . leagues , and the land then extended from S. W. by W. to N. by W. We were then diftant about three or four leagues from the nearest shore , and in this fituation had ...
... fresh breeze at north : at eight in the evening , we had run eleven . leagues , and the land then extended from S. W. by W. to N. by W. We were then diftant about three or four leagues from the nearest shore , and in this fituation had ...
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... fresh gale at south . At ten , having run eleven miles upon this course , we saw land extending from the S. W. to the N. W. at the distance of about ten leagues , which : we hauled up for . At noon , our latitude by obfervation was 44 ...
... fresh gale at south . At ten , having run eleven miles upon this course , we saw land extending from the S. W. to the N. W. at the distance of about ten leagues , which : we hauled up for . At noon , our latitude by obfervation was 44 ...
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... fresh gale at north ; but though we were at no great dif tance , the weather was fo hażey that we could fee nothing distinctly upon it , except a ridge of high hills lying not far from the fea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this ...
... fresh gale at north ; but though we were at no great dif tance , the weather was fo hażey that we could fee nothing distinctly upon it , except a ridge of high hills lying not far from the fea , and parallel to the coaft , which in this ...
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