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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... Inhabitants , their Habitations , Apparel , Orna- ments , Food , Cookery , and Manner of Life . СНАР . Х. 446 Of the Canoes and Navigation of the Inhabitants of New Zealand ; their Tillage , Weapons , and Mufic ; Government , Religion ...
... Inhabitants , their Habitations , Apparel , Orna- ments , Food , Cookery , and Manner of Life . СНАР . Х. 446 Of the Canoes and Navigation of the Inhabitants of New Zealand ; their Tillage , Weapons , and Mufic ; Government , Religion ...
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... Inhabitants , and Productions . CHAP . V. 507 Dangerous Situation of the Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 544 С НА Р. VI . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the ...
... Inhabitants , and Productions . CHAP . V. 507 Dangerous Situation of the Ship in her Courfe from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River . 544 С НА Р. VI . Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River : A Defcription of the ...
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... Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try , their Manners , Customs , and Manner of Life . CHAP . XV . 749 The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope : Some Account of Prince's land and its Inhabitants , and a ...
... Inhabitants of Batavia , and the adjacent Coun- try , their Manners , Customs , and Manner of Life . CHAP . XV . 749 The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope : Some Account of Prince's land and its Inhabitants , and a ...
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... inhabitants of the different parts of this coaft upon their first approaching the vessel . These kept aloof with a mixture of timidity and wonder ; others had immediately commenced hoftilities , by pelting us with ftones : the gentle ...
... inhabitants of the different parts of this coaft upon their first approaching the vessel . These kept aloof with a mixture of timidity and wonder ; others had immediately commenced hoftilities , by pelting us with ftones : the gentle ...
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... inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30W . diftant about four leagues . We had variable winds and calms till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W , S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and ...
... inhabitants . At noon , Cape Saunders bore N. 30W . diftant about four leagues . We had variable winds and calms till five o'clock in the evening , when it fixed at W , S. W. and foon blew fo hard that it put us paft our topfails , and ...
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