The Quest of Captain CookIn the years from 1768 to 1779 James Cook sailed in three great voyages around the world. The story of these voyages is the story of the greatest single quest any man ever made to explore uncharted waters and to discover real lands in place of imaginary ones. He mapped all the coast of New Zealand and eastern Australia and claimed these lands for the British crown. He discovered innumerable islands in the Pacific and rediscovered others that mariners had once reached but couldn't find again. He circumnavigated the Antarctic and found ample reasons to believe there was a continent there. He discovered the Hawaiian Islands. He mapped the northwest coast of America and sailed into the Arctic Ocean in search of a passage east or west. - p. 8. |
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... natives they had seen from the ship . When they landed , the " Indians " ( they called all peoples in the South Sea Indians ) disappeared . Then a few stole out of the forest and tried to capture the boat from which Cook's party had ...
... natives they had seen from the ship . When they landed , the " Indians " ( they called all peoples in the South Sea Indians ) disappeared . Then a few stole out of the forest and tried to capture the boat from which Cook's party had ...
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... natives . For nearly two months the two ships kept within sight or signaling distance of each other . Fog and snow surrounded them . The rigging and sails glittered with icicles . There were huge floating mountains of ice on the north ...
... natives . For nearly two months the two ships kept within sight or signaling distance of each other . Fog and snow surrounded them . The rigging and sails glittered with icicles . There were huge floating mountains of ice on the north ...
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... native names by which they are known today . Not till the following year did Cook see the largest of this island group . The natives called this one Hawaii . He named the whole group the Sandwich Islands after the First Lord of the ...
... native names by which they are known today . Not till the following year did Cook see the largest of this island group . The natives called this one Hawaii . He named the whole group the Sandwich Islands after the First Lord of the ...
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