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| CHAPTER I. | Birth, Parentage, and early Employments of Cook, to his entering the Navy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER II. | Cook volunteers into the Navy—is promoted—serves at Quebec, and Newfoundland.—Returns home, and marries—is appointed Marine Surveyor of Newfoundland, &c. His Charts. Mistake of Chalmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER III. | Cook appointed to conduct the Voyage to the S. Sea, for observing the Transit of Venus. Officers and Scientific Gentlemen. Arrival at Madeira,—Rio Janeiro—Terra del Fuego—Pacific Ocean—Otaheite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER IV. | Friendly intercourse and trade with the Tahitians. Fort and observatory erected. Musket stolen—native shot. Tootahah—Oberea. Transit of Venus. Manners of the natives. Tupia and his boy taken on board. Departure from Otaheite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER V. | Huaheine visited—Ulietea—Otaha—Bolabola. Departure from the Society Islands. Oheteroa discovered. Comet seen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER VI. | New Zealand discovered. Some natives killed: others taken and kindly treated. Various capes and bays observed. Bay of Islands. Queen Charlotte's Sound. The natives cannibals. Cook's Straits. The islands circumnavigated. Memorials left. Everett's verses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER VII. | New S. Wales discovered, and the coast traced. Botany Bay. Thirsty Sound. The Endeavour strikes on a rock; is got off, and repaired. Transactions at Endeavour River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER VIII. | Perils of the voyage—Providential Channel. Possession Island—Endeavour Straits. New Guinea—Savu. Batavia. Great sickness and death there, and on the passage to the Cape. Voyage home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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