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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... western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . 411 CHAP . VIII . A general ...
... western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Defcription of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . 411 CHAP . VIII . A general ...
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... western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . A T four o'clock in the ...
... western Entrance of Cook's Streight , which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country ; with a Description of the Coaft , and of Admiralty Bay : The Departure from New Zealand , and various Particulars . A T four o'clock in the ...
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... west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant two and twenty leagues S. W. S .; and ...
... west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant two and twenty leagues S. W. S .; and ...
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... west , ever since our last hard gale , had convinced me that there was no land in that direction . In the night we had a hard gale at N. E. by N. and N. which brought us under our courfes , but about eight in the morning it became ...
... west , ever since our last hard gale , had convinced me that there was no land in that direction . In the night we had a hard gale at N. E. by N. and N. which brought us under our courfes , but about eight in the morning it became ...
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... western extremity of the main bore N. 59 W. and the island which we had seen in the morning , S. 59 W. diftant about five leagues . It lies in latitude 46 ° 31'S . Iongitude 192 ° 49 ′ W. and is nothing but a barren rock about a mile in ...
... western extremity of the main bore N. 59 W. and the island which we had seen in the morning , S. 59 W. diftant about five leagues . It lies in latitude 46 ° 31'S . Iongitude 192 ° 49 ′ W. and is nothing but a barren rock about a mile in ...
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