Volume 1

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 Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.

  • Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
Date:
1773
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Credit: 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 Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there was reafon to believe it would'foon blow hard. I 'was 1765. afraid I might be driven off the bank in the night, the con- ■ j. fequence of which .would be that they muft, be left behind Monday 29, upon the ifland. When the boat came to the furf, the people on board delivered my melTage, upon which the gunner fwam through the furf, and got on board her; but the feaman, though he had a cork jacket on, faid he was fure he fliould be drowned if he attempted to get oIF to the boat, and that, chufing rather to die a natural death, he was determined at all events to remain-upon the ifland : he then took an afFec1:ionate leave of the people, wifliing them all happinefs, and the people on board returned Aiis good wifhes. One of the midfliipmen, however, juft as the boat was about to return, took the end of a rope in his hand, jumped into the fea, and fwam through the furf to the beach, where poor John ftill continued ruminating upon his fituation, in a deje^ed attitude, and with a moft difcom folate length of countenance. The midfliipman began to expoftulate with him upon the ftrange refolution he had taken, and in the mein time having made a running knot in his rope, he dexteroufly contrived to throw it round his body, calling out to his companions in the boat, who had hold of the other end of it, to haul away; they inftantly took the hint, and the poor feceder was very foon dragged through the furf into the boat: he had, however, fwallowed fo great a quantity of water, that he was to all appearance dead, but being held up by the heels, he foon recovered his fpeech and motion, and was perfedlly well the next day. In the evening, I removed Captain Mouat from the Tamar, and appointed him Captain of the Dolphin, under me; Mr. Gumming, my Firft Lieutenant, I appointed Captain of the Tamar, taking Mx% Carteret, her Firft Lieutenant, on board VoL. L N in