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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... be lightened by tapping , and it will then make the finest mafts in the world : it has a leaf not unlike a yew , and bears berries in fmall bunches . VOL . II . 3 L Great 1 1770 . March . . Great part of the ROUND THE WORLD . 441.
... be lightened by tapping , and it will then make the finest mafts in the world : it has a leaf not unlike a yew , and bears berries in fmall bunches . VOL . II . 3 L Great 1 1770 . March . . Great part of the ROUND THE WORLD . 441.
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... leaves of both resemble those of flags , but the flowers are smaller , and their clusters more numerous ; in one kind they are yellow , and in the other a deep red . Of the leaves of these plants , with very little pre- paration , they ...
... leaves of both resemble those of flags , but the flowers are smaller , and their clusters more numerous ; in one kind they are yellow , and in the other a deep red . Of the leaves of these plants , with very little pre- paration , they ...
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... leaves of the flag , which has been described among the vegetable productions of this country : these leaves are split into three or four flips , and the flips , when they are dry , interwoven with each other into a kind of stuff ...
... leaves of the flag , which has been described among the vegetable productions of this country : these leaves are split into three or four flips , and the flips , when they are dry , interwoven with each other into a kind of stuff ...
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... leaf ; pointed at the bottom , broadeft in the middle , and gra- dually losing itself in the shaft , the whole length being about fix feet , of which the fhaft or loom including the handle is four , 1770 . March . 1770 . March . Tools ...
... leaf ; pointed at the bottom , broadeft in the middle , and gra- dually losing itself in the shaft , the whole length being about fix feet , of which the fhaft or loom including the handle is four , 1770 . March . 1770 . March . Tools ...
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... leaf . After dinner the boats were manned , and we set out from the fhip , having Tupia of our party . We intended to land where we faw the people , and began to hope that as they had fo little regarded the ship's coming into the bay ...
... leaf . After dinner the boats were manned , and we set out from the fhip , having Tupia of our party . We intended to land where we faw the people , and began to hope that as they had fo little regarded the ship's coming into the bay ...
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