John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken … for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere … Vol III. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.
Cook’s first voyage was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition was to sail to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun, to determine the earth’s distance from the sun, and to carry on the geographical discovery that John Byron had started. Entering the Pacific around Cape Horn, Cook reached Tahiti in 1769 and carried out the necessary astronomical observation. Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander carried out extensive ethnological and botanical research.
Leaving Tahiti in July, Cook charted the Society Islands, then, heading southwest, explored New Zealand, which resulted in a detailed survey of the country. This third volume of Hawkesworth’s Voyages is open at a passage describing the sighting of Cape Saunders and Saddle Hill.
John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken … for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere … Vol III. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.
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