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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... least small bays , between this and the north west head of Queen Char- lotte's Sound , in each of which , I make no doubt , there is anchorage and fhelter , as they are all covered from the fea wind by the islands which lie without them ...
... least small bays , between this and the north west head of Queen Char- lotte's Sound , in each of which , I make no doubt , there is anchorage and fhelter , as they are all covered from the fea wind by the islands which lie without them ...
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... least we saw no other , and the rats are so scarce that many of us never faw them . The dogs live with the people , who breed them for no other purpose than to eat : there might indeed be quadrupeds that we did not fee , but this is not ...
... least we saw no other , and the rats are so scarce that many of us never faw them . The dogs live with the people , who breed them for no other purpose than to eat : there might indeed be quadrupeds that we did not fee , but this is not ...
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... least . In these holes they wear ornaments of various kinds , cloth , feathers , bones of large birds , and even fometimes a flick of wood ; and to thefe receptacles of finery they generally ap- plied the nails which we gave them , and ...
... least . In these holes they wear ornaments of various kinds , cloth , feathers , bones of large birds , and even fometimes a flick of wood ; and to thefe receptacles of finery they generally ap- plied the nails which we gave them , and ...
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... least shelter while we staid there , though it fometimes rained inceffantly for four and twenty hours together , The articles of their food have been enumerated already ; the principal , which to them is what bread is to the inha ...
... least shelter while we staid there , though it fometimes rained inceffantly for four and twenty hours together , The articles of their food have been enumerated already ; the principal , which to them is what bread is to the inha ...
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... least the fish , for fea flores : and this particular feems to confirm my opinion that this country scarcely fuftains the prefent num- ber of its inhabitants , who are urged to perpetual hoftilities by hunger , which naturally prompted ...
... least the fish , for fea flores : and this particular feems to confirm my opinion that this country scarcely fuftains the prefent num- ber of its inhabitants , who are urged to perpetual hoftilities by hunger , which naturally prompted ...
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