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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... resembling thofe of Europe , to be called the fame , by those who have not examined them very nicely . Here are alfo hawks , owls , and quails , which differ but little from those of Europe at firft fight ; and several small birds ...
... resembling thofe of Europe , to be called the fame , by those who have not examined them very nicely . Here are alfo hawks , owls , and quails , which differ but little from those of Europe at firft fight ; and several small birds ...
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... 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 make all their ...
... 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 make all their ...
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... resemble the foliage in old chased ornaments , and the convolutions of fillagree work ; but in these they have fuch a luxuriance of fancy , that of an hundred , which at first fight appeared to be exactly the fame , no two were , upon a ...
... resemble the foliage in old chased ornaments , and the convolutions of fillagree work ; but in these they have fuch a luxuriance of fancy , that of an hundred , which at first fight appeared to be exactly the fame , no two were , upon a ...
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... is as coarfe as our coarseft canvas , and fomewhat resembles it in the manner of laying the threads , but it is ten times as ftrong : the other is formed 4 formed by many threads lying very close one way , 454 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... is as coarfe as our coarseft canvas , and fomewhat resembles it in the manner of laying the threads , but it is ten times as ftrong : the other is formed 4 formed by many threads lying very close one way , 454 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... resemble a New England whale boat : the larger fort feem to be built chiefly for war , and will carry from forty to eighty , or an hundred armed men . We measured one which lay afhore at Tolaga : fhe was fixty- eight feet and an half ...
... resemble a New England whale boat : the larger fort feem to be built chiefly for war , and will carry from forty to eighty , or an hundred armed men . We measured one which lay afhore at Tolaga : fhe was fixty- eight feet and an half ...
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