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 from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
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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 from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, 2007
Wellington, New Zealand
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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 from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
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James Williams, 1775
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Missing pages from the GoogleBook version (namely pages 277 and 316 from "An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..." and pages 45 and 46 from "A Voyage towards the North Pole..." were sourced from:
Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, ... by John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. To which is added a voyage to the North Pole, by Commodore Phipps. In two volumes. ... Vol. 2. Dublin, 1775. 2 vols. Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Gale Group.
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