A

GENERAL

.COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGE

AND

TRAVELS,

including the most

INTERESTING RECORDS

OF

NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS,

FROM THE

Discovery of America, by Columbus, in 1492,

TO THE TRAVELS OF LORD VALENTIA.

In Twenty-eight Wolumes.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

Printed for SHERWOOD, NEELY, and JONES,

Paternoster Row,

By J. Compton, Middle Street, Cloth Fair.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

44*296

Range from Cape Turnagain southward along the eastern

Coast of Poenammoo, round Cape South, and back to the

western Entrance of Cook's Streight, which completed the

Circumnavigation of this Country; with a Description

of the Coast, and of Admiralty Bay: the Departure from

New Zealand, and various Particulars

1

CHAP. VIII.

A general Account of New Zealand: its first Discovery,

Situation, Extent, Climate, and Productions,

VOL. V.

31

CHAP. IX.

A Description of the Inhabitants, their Habitations, Apparel,

Ornaments, Food, Cookery, and Manner of Life.

CHAP. X.

32

Of the Canoes and Navigation of the Inhabitants of New

Zealand; their Tillage, Weapons, and Music; Government,

Religion, and Language: With some Reasons against

the Existence of a Southern Continent.

1

47

BOOK III.

CHAP. I.

The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay, on the East

Coast of New Holland, now called New South Wales;

various Incidents that happened there with some Account

of the Country and its Inhabitants.

CHAP. II.

64

The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay; with a farther

Account of the Country, its Inhabitants, and Produc-

tions.

88

CHAP. III.

Dangerous Situation of the Ship in her course from Trinity

Bay to Endeavour River.

123

CHAP. IV.

Transactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour

River: a Description of the adjacent Country, its Inhabi

tants, and Productions.

134

CHAP. V.

Departure from Endeavour River; a particular Description

of the Harbour there, in which the Ship was refitted, the

adjacent Country, and several Islands near the Coast: the

Range from Endeavour River to the Northern Extremity

of the Country, and the Dangers of that Navigation. 164

CHAP. VI.

Departure from New South Wales; a particular Description

of the Country, its Products, and People: a Specimen of

the Language, and some Observations upon the Currents

and Tides.

194