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 2W. 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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... rest of the day in examining its produce , which he found to be much the fame with that of Otaheite . The people whom he saw there also exactly refembled the inhabitants of that island , and many of them were perfons whom he had feen ...
... rest of the day in examining its produce , which he found to be much the fame with that of Otaheite . The people whom he saw there also exactly refembled the inhabitants of that island , and many of them were perfons whom he had feen ...
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... rest of the proceflion , which continued more than half an hour . The office that Mr. Banks performed , was called that of the Nineveh , of which Saturday 10 . there were two befides himself ; and the natives having all disappeared ...
... rest of the proceflion , which continued more than half an hour . The office that Mr. Banks performed , was called that of the Nineveh , of which Saturday 10 . there were two befides himself ; and the natives having all disappeared ...
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... whole was covered with the rest of the hot ftones , and the mouth of the hole clofe ftopped with mould : in fomewhat lefs than four hours it was was again opened , and the dog taken out excellently 15.2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
... whole was covered with the rest of the hot ftones , and the mouth of the hole clofe ftopped with mould : in fomewhat lefs than four hours it was was again opened , and the dog taken out excellently 15.2 LIEUTENANT COOK's VOYAGE.
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... rest sunk by the mining of a fubterraneous fire , fo as to give a paffage to the fea over it ; or were torn from rocks , which , from the creation of the world , had been the bed of the sea , and thrown up in heaps , to a height which ...
... rest sunk by the mining of a fubterraneous fire , fo as to give a paffage to the fea over it ; or were torn from rocks , which , from the creation of the world , had been the bed of the sea , and thrown up in heaps , to a height which ...
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... rest of the body quite naked . Upon their legs and feet they wear no covering ; but they fhade their faces from the fun with little bonnets , either of matting or of cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occafionally in a few minutes ...
... rest of the body quite naked . Upon their legs and feet they wear no covering ; but they fhade their faces from the fun with little bonnets , either of matting or of cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occafionally in a few minutes ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwered appeared Banks and Dr baſket becauſe beſt boat bread-fruit called canoes Cape cloſe cloth cocoa-nut confiderable confifted cuſtom defirous diftant diſcovered diſtance diſtinguiſhed eaſily eaſt Etoa faid fame fathom feemed feen feet fent feven feveral fhip fhore fide firft firſt fiſh fituation fleep fmall fome fometimes foon fouth freſh Friday ftill ftones fuch fuppofed harbour himſelf hogs houfe houſe Indians inhabitants iſland juſt land latitude leagues leaſt lefs longitude miles Monday morning moſt muſt natives neceffary night o'clock Oberea obferved occafion Otaheite paffed perfons pinnace plantains pleaſure prefent provifions purchaſed purpoſe reaſon reef reft round ſaid Saturday ſaw ſea ſeemed ſeen ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould ſmall Solander ſome ſtone ſtood ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thurſday told Tootahah trees Tubourai Tamaide Tueſday Tupia uſed vifit Wednef weft weftward whoſe women wood