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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... those that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . 2 At day - break , the wind freshened , and before ...
... those that are found in great numbers upon the island of Faro , and were the first of the kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . 2 At day - break , the wind freshened , and before ...
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... those that came off to us under the fnowy mountains , and the fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were all the inhabitants , and figns of in- habitants , that we difcovered upon the whole island . Eaheinomauwe has a much better ...
... those that came off to us under the fnowy mountains , and the fires to the weft of Cape Saunders , were all the inhabitants , and figns of in- habitants , that we difcovered upon the whole island . Eaheinomauwe has a much better ...
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... those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more equally warm ; fo that if this country should be settled by people from Europe , they would , with a little industry , be very foon fupplied not only with the ...
... those in England , and we found the fummer not hotter , though it was more equally warm ; fo that if this country should be settled by people from Europe , they would , with a little industry , be very foon fupplied not only with the ...
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... those of Eu- rope : here are ducks indeed , and fhags of feveral kinds , fufficiently 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 ...
... those of Eu- rope : here are ducks indeed , and fhags of feveral kinds , fufficiently 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 ...
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... those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole fhip's company , efpecially to the fouthward : when we lay at anchor ...
... those of Europe : the fhip feldom anchored in any station , or with a light gale paffed any place , that did not afford us enough with hook and line to ferve the whole fhip's company , efpecially to the fouthward : when we lay at anchor ...
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