collectively, from the expedition of Columbus to the present time.

To have been appointed to record them, and permitted to infcribe the Narrative to Your Majefty, is an honour, the sense of which will always be retained with the warmest gratitude, by

FIRST

OF THE

VOLUME.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

Page i

An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally underflood which

occur in this Work.

A Defcription of the Cuts.

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XXXV

COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.

CHAP. I.

The Paffage from the Downs to Rio de Janeiro.

СНАР. II.

3

Paffage from Rio de Janeiro to Port Defire; with fome Defcription

of that Place.

CHA P. III.

8

Courfe from Port Defire, in Search of Pepys' Island, and afterwards

to the Coast of Patagonia, with a Defcription of the Inhabitants.

CHAP. IV.

23

Paffage up the Streight of Magellan, to Port Famine; with fome

Account of that Harbour, and the adjacent Coaft.

CHAP. V.

33

The Courfe back from Port Famine to Falkland's Islands, with fome

Account of the Country..

CHAP. VI.

The Paffage through the Streight of Magellan as far as Cape Monday,

with a Defcription of feveral Bays and Harbours, formed by the

Coaft on each Side.

CHAP. VII.

58

The Paffage from Cape Monday, in the Streight of Magellan, into the

South Seas; with some general Remarks on the Navigation of that

Streight.

CHAP. VIII.

75

The Run from the Western Entrance of the Streight of Magellan, to

the lands of Disappointment.

CHA P. IX.

86

The Discovery of King George's Islands, with a Defcription of them,

and an Account of feveral Incidents that happened there.

CHA P. X.

97

The Run from King George's Islands to the Islands of Saypan, Tinian,

and Aguigan; with an Account of feveral Islands that were dif

covered in that Track.

СНАР. XI.

107

The Arrival of the Dolphin and Tamar at Tinian, a Defcription of

the prefent Condition of that Ifland, and an Account of the Tranfac-

tions there.
115

CHAP. XII.

The Run from Tinian to Pulo Timoan, with fome Account of that

Iland, its Inhabitants and Productions, and thence to Batavia.

CHAP. XIII.

Transactions at Batavia, and Departure from that Place.

CHAP XIV.

123

131

The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence

to England.

135

CAPTAIN

PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND

SIN

EDITI O N.

INCE the publication of the first edition of this work, a quarto pamphlet has appeared, under the title of "A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth, occa"fioned by some groundless and illiberal Imputations in his "Account of the late Voyages to the South Seas.”

Upon reading this letter I found that the Imputations faid to be groundless and illiberal were imputed to me; that I was charged with having formed fuppofitions injurious to Mr. Dalrymple, with contradicting a known fact, with ignorant criticisms on his observations, and with suppressing whatever would do him credit. As I had declared in my general Introduction, that "the account was drawn up from "the journals kept by the Commanders of the several ships, "and from other affiftance, (the papers of Mr. Banks) with liberty however of interspersing such sentiments and ob"servations as my subject should suggest,” I wondered at first at this Gentleman's hafte to vent his resentment against me, before he had informed himself whether I was in fault, which not only in candour but in juftice he should certainly have done, especially as both my person and place of abode are well known to him, but I foon discovered that my book found him in an ill-humour. He pathetically complains of an influence which prevented him from going in the Endeavour; of an injury done him in depriving him of the ship he had VOL. I. [A] chofen