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One of the few images in a popular small-format edition of John Hawkesworth’s bestselling account of Cook’s circumnavigation, 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 Endeavour: drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 4th ed., 4 vols (Perth, 1789), frontispiece to vol. II. The “View of Matavai Bay in Otaheite from One Tree Hill” shows in the background the British encampment at Point Venus on the north coast of Tahiti.