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English: "Double canoes. Tipaerua." Society Islands, probably during Captain Cook's first voyage. From the British Museum's collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson and J. F. Miller, made in the countries visited by Captain Cook in his first voyage (1768-71), also of prints published in John Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron, Wallis and Cook, 1773, as well as in Cook 's second and third voyages (1762-5, 1776-80.
Date between 1768 and 1771
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Author A. Buchan, S. Parkinson or J. F. Miller
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