The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779The diaries of James Cook, the Scotch-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically unchartered Pacific. |
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INTRODUCTION xili Chapter I OCEAN PROBLEMS OF THE 18TH CENTURY I | 1 |
COOKS EARLY LIFE AND CAREER | 9 |
THE FIRST VOYAGE 17681771 | 13 |
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Admiralty Adventure anchored appeared Banks boat Botany Bay breeze Canoes Cape Horn Captain Clerke Captain Cook Captain Furneaux Chief Cloth Coast command Cook's Country crew danger discovered discovery distance East Easter Island Endeavour Endeavour River expedition exploration farther fathom feet fire fish fresh gale gave harbour head Hogs Hugh Palliser inhabitants Island isles James Cook Journal King land Latitude Leagues Longd Longitude Lord Sandwich manner mast mentioned Morai Morning Natives navigation Noon North Northward nother o'Clock observed Ocean officers Otaheite Pacific passage peices pinnace Queen Charlotte Sound Quiros Reck.g reef Resolution round sail Sandwich scurvy seem'd seen shew Ship shore side Sloops soon sort South Southern Continent Southward Strait Tahiti thing thought THURSDAY took Transit of Venus trees TUESDAY voyage weather West westward whole wind women wood Zealand