moft able navigators in Europe, Your Majesty has, not with a view to the acquifition of treafure, or the extent of dominion, but the improvement of commerce and the increafe and diffufion of knowledge, undertaken what had fo long been neglected; and under Your Majesty's aufpices, in little more than feven years, difcoveries have been made far greater than thofe of all the navigators in the world collectively, from the expedition of Columbus to the prefent time.

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

FIRST

OF THE

VOLUM E.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

Page i

An Explanation of the Nautical Terms, not generally

underflood, which occur in this Work.

COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.

CHA P. I.

The Paffage from the Downs to Rio de Janeiro.

CHAP. H.

xix

Paffage from Rio de Janeiro to Port Defire; with fome

Defcription of that Place.

CHA P. III.

7

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

afterwards to the Coast of Patagonia; with a Defcrip-

tion of the Inhabitants.

CHA P. IV.

19

Paffage up the Streight of Magellan, to Port Famine;

with fome Account of that Harbour, and the adjacent

Coaft.

CHA P. V.

27

The Courfe back from Port Famine to Falkland's Iflands ;

with fome Account of the Country.

34

The Paffage through the Streight of Magellan as far as

Cape Monday; with a Defcription of feveral Bays and

Harbours, formed by the Coast on each Side.

48

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CHA P. VII.

The Paffage from Cape Monday, in the Streight of

Magellan, into the South Seas; with fome general re-

marks on the Navigation of that Streight.

CHA P. VIII.

62

Run from the Western Entrance of the Streight of Ma-

gellan, to the Islands of Disappointment.

CHA P. IX.

70

The Discovery of King George's Islands, with a Defcrip-

tion of them, and an Account of several Incidents that

happened there.

CHA P. X.

79

The Run from King George's Ifhands to the lands of

Saypan, Tinian, and Aiguigan; with an Account of

feveral Islands that were discovered in that Track. 87

CHA P. XI.

The Arrival of the Dolphin and Tamar at Tinian. A

Defcription of the prefent Condition of that Ifland,

and an Account of the Tranfactions there.

CHA P. XII.

94

The Run from Tinian to Pulo Timoan; with fome Ac-

count of that Iland, its Inhabitants and Productions,

nd thence to Batavia.

100

CHA P. XIII.

Tranfactions at Batavia, and Departure from that

Place.

CHA P. XIV.

106

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

from thence to England.

109

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CAPTAIN WALLIS'S VOYAGE:

The Paffage to the Coast of Patagonia, with fome Account

of the Natives.

CHA P. II.

The Paffage through the Streight of Magellan, with fome

farther Account of the Patagonians, and a Defcription

of the Coaft on each Side, and its Inhabitants.

CHA P. III.

128

A particular Account of the Places in which we anchored

during our Paffage through the Streight, and of the

Shoals and Rocks that lie near them.

CHA P. IV.

153

The Paffage from the Streight of Magellan, to King

George the Third's Ifland, called Otaheite, in the

South Sea, with an Account of the Discovery of feve-

ral other Islands, and a Defcription of their Inhabi-

tants.

162

CHAP.

V.

An account of the Discovery of King George the Third's

Ifland, or Otaheite, and of feveral Incidents which

happened both on board the Ship, and on Shore, 173

The Sick fent on Shore, and a regular Trade established

with the Natives. Some Account of their Character

and Manners, of their Vifits on board the ship, and a

Variety of Incidents that happened during this Inter-

course.

190

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An Account of an Expedition to discover the inland Part

of the Country, and our other Tranfactions, till we

quitted the land to continue our Voyage.

CHA P. VIII.

205

A more particular Account of the Inhabitants of Otabeite,

and of their domeftic Life, Manners, and Arts.

C H A P. IX.

21 I

•Paffage from Otaheite to Tinian; with fome Account of

feveral other Iflands that were discovered in the South

Seas.

CH A P. X.

220

Some Account of the prefent State of the Ifland of Tinian,

and our Employment there; with what happened in

the Run from thence to Batavia.

226

Tranfactions at Batavia, and an Account of the Paffage

from thence to the Cape of Good Hope.

CHA P. XIII.

233

An Account of our Transactions at the Cape of Good Hope,

and of the Return of the Dolphin to England.

CAPTAIN CARTERET'S VOYAGE.

CHA P. I.

238

The Run from Plymouth to Madeira, and from thence

through the Streight of Magellan.

249

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