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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... half the distance between that and the ship before it was dark . We imagined that these people had heard nothing of us , and could not but remark the different behaviour and difpofitions of the inhabitants of the different parts of this ...
... half the distance between that and the ship before it was dark . We imagined that these people had heard nothing of us , and could not but remark the different behaviour and difpofitions of the inhabitants of the different parts of this ...
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... half an hour past three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and food to the northward , having a large fwell from the S. W. by W. At noon the next ...
... half an hour past three in the afternoon ; and then , being in latitude 48 ° S. and longitude 188 ° W. and feeing no appearance of land , we tacked and food to the northward , having a large fwell from the S. W. by W. At noon the next ...
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... half , and the northermoft N. E. E. diftant about three leagues . This land is high and barren , with nothing upon it but a few ftraggling fhrubs , for not a fingle tree was to be seen ; it was however remarkable for a number of white ...
... half , and the northermoft N. E. E. diftant about three leagues . This land is high and barren , with nothing upon it but a few ftraggling fhrubs , for not a fingle tree was to be seen ; it was however remarkable for a number of white ...
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... half an hour after three I hauled in for a bay , in which there ap- peared to be good anchorage ; but in about an hour , finding the distance too great to run before it would be dark , and the wind blowing too hard to make the attempt ...
... half an hour after three I hauled in for a bay , in which there ap- peared to be good anchorage ; but in about an hour , finding the distance too great to run before it would be dark , and the wind blowing too hard to make the attempt ...
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... half from the fhore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row opening in land , where there seemed to be a very safe and convenient harbour , formed by an island , which lay in the middle ...
... half from the fhore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row opening in land , where there seemed to be a very safe and convenient harbour , formed by an island , which lay in the middle ...
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