of all the navigators in the world collectively from the expedition of Columbus to the present time.

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

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION,

Page i

Preface to the Second Edition.

xxvii

An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally

understood which occur in this work. xxxix

A Description of the Cuts.

lv

COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.

C H A P. 1.

The Pasage from the Downs to Rio de Janeiro. 3

CH A P. II.

Pasage from Rio de Janeiro to Port Desire; with

some Description of that Place.

9

CHA P. III.

Course from Port Desire, in search of Pepys' Isand,

and afterwards to the coast of Patagonia, with a

Description of the Inhabitants.

28

CHAP. IV.

Passage up the Streight of Magellan, to Port Fa-

mine; with some Account of that Harbour, and

the adjacent Coaft.

40

CHAP

A 4

CH A P. V. The Course back from Port Famine to Falkland's

Ifands, with some Account of the Country. 50

CH A P. VI.) The Passage through the Streights of Magellan as far

as Cape Monday, with a Description of several Bays and Harbours, formed by the Coajt on each Side.

CH A P. VII. The Passage from Cape Monday, in the Strčight of

Magellan, into the South Seas; with some general Remarks on the Navigation of that Streigth 91

CH A P. VIII.

The Reen from the Western Entrance of the Streight

of Magellan, to the Islands of Disappointment. 104

CH A P. IX.

The Discovery of King George's Islands, with a Description of them, and an Account of several Incidents that happened there.

117 CHAP. X. The Run from King George's Islands to the Illands of

Saypan, Tinian, and Aguignan; with an Account of several INands that were discovered in that Track.

129 снАР.

C H A P. XI.

The Arrival of the Dolphin and Tamar at Tinian, a

Defcription of the present Condition of that Island, and an Account of the Tranfaétions there. 139

CHA P. XII.

The Run from Tinian to Pulo Timoan, with some

Account of that Island, its Inbabitants and Productions, and thence to Batavia.

148

CH A P. XIII.

Transaktions at Batavia, and Departure from that Place.

158 CH A P. XIV. The Passage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to England.

163

CAPTAIN WALLIS's VOYAGE.

CHAP. I.

P. The Pasage to the coast of Patagonie, with some Account of the Natives.

171

CH A P. II.

The Pasage through the Streight of Magellan, with some further Account of the Patagonians, and a Description of the Coast on each side, and its Inbabitants.

190