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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... rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land ...
... rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleasant appearance ; but far- ther from the fea it rifes into hills . The land ...
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... rocks , extending from S. by W. to W. by S. upon which the sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them ...
... rocks , extending from S. by W. to W. by S. upon which the sea broke very high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diftant , yet we had five and forty fathom water . As the wind was at N. W. we could not now weather them ...
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... rocks , fo well adapted to catch unwary ftrangers , I called them the TRAPS . Our latitude at noon was 47 ° 26 ' S. The land in fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and feemed to be ...
... rocks , fo well adapted to catch unwary ftrangers , I called them the TRAPS . Our latitude at noon was 47 ° 26 ' S. The land in fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and feemed to be ...
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... rock about a mile in circuit , re- markably high , and lies full five leagues diftant from the main . This island I named after Dr. Solander , and called it SOLANDER'S ISLAND . The fhore of the main lies nearest E .. by S. and W. by N ...
... rock about a mile in circuit , re- markably high , and lies full five leagues diftant from the main . This island I named after Dr. Solander , and called it SOLANDER'S ISLAND . The fhore of the main lies nearest E .. by S. and W. by N ...
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... rocks which lie off it , and have the appearance of the four fingers and thumb of a man's hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a ...
... rocks which lie off it , and have the appearance of the four fingers and thumb of a man's hand , for which reafon I called it POINT FIVE FINGERS : the land of this Point is far- ther remarkable , for being the only level land within a ...
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