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1773 engraving of a drawing by John James Barralet after a pen and wash drawing by Sydney Parkinson, showing a tree in the foreground, and HMS Endeavour anchoring in Matavai Bay, Tahiti.

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.

A tree overlooking a bay.

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