An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of CookHarper & brothers, 1837 - 366 Seiten |
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... FROM MAGELLAN TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - 1522-1600 . Expedition of Loyosa ( 1525 ) .- Discovery of Papua or New Guinea ( 1526 ) .- Voyages of Saavedra ( 1527-1529 ) .— Of Vil- lalobos ( 1542 ) .- Of Legaspi ( 1564 )
... FROM MAGELLAN TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - 1522-1600 . Expedition of Loyosa ( 1525 ) .- Discovery of Papua or New Guinea ( 1526 ) .- Voyages of Saavedra ( 1527-1529 ) .— Of Vil- lalobos ( 1542 ) .- Of Legaspi ( 1564 )
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... Expedition of Sarmiento ( 1579 ) . Circumnavigation of Cavendish ( 1586-1588 ) .- His Second Voyage ( 1591 ) .- The Falkland Islands discovered ( 1592 ) .- Expedition of Sir Richard Hawkins ( 1593 ) .— Second Voyage of Mendana ( 1595 ) ...
... Expedition of Sarmiento ( 1579 ) . Circumnavigation of Cavendish ( 1586-1588 ) .- His Second Voyage ( 1591 ) .- The Falkland Islands discovered ( 1592 ) .- Expedition of Sir Richard Hawkins ( 1593 ) .— Second Voyage of Mendana ( 1595 ) ...
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... Expedition of Surville ( 1769 ) .— Terre des Arsacides . - Voyage of Shortland ( 1788 ) .- New Georgia . - Retrospect CHAPTER VIII . 175 LIFE OF COOK PREVIOUS TO HIS FIRST VOYAGE - 1728–1768 . Birth and Parentage of Cook . - His ...
... Expedition of Surville ( 1769 ) .— Terre des Arsacides . - Voyage of Shortland ( 1788 ) .- New Georgia . - Retrospect CHAPTER VIII . 175 LIFE OF COOK PREVIOUS TO HIS FIRST VOYAGE - 1728–1768 . Birth and Parentage of Cook . - His ...
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... Expedition . -Preparations and Instructions for the Voyage Page 202 CHAPTER IX . • FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF COOK - 1768-1771 . Departure ( 26th August , 1768 ) .- Adventure on Tierra del Fuego ( 16th January , 1769 ) .- Discovery of ...
... Expedition . -Preparations and Instructions for the Voyage Page 202 CHAPTER IX . • FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF COOK - 1768-1771 . Departure ( 26th August , 1768 ) .- Adventure on Tierra del Fuego ( 16th January , 1769 ) .- Discovery of ...
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... Expedition . - Omai in Eng- land Page 246 CHAPTER XI . COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE - 1776-1780 . • Objects of the Expedition.- Departure ( 12th July , 1776 ) .— Ker- guelen's or Desolation Island . - Van Diemen's Land - New Zealand . - Mangeea ...
... Expedition . - Omai in Eng- land Page 246 CHAPTER XI . COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE - 1776-1780 . • Objects of the Expedition.- Departure ( 12th July , 1776 ) .— Ker- guelen's or Desolation Island . - Van Diemen's Land - New Zealand . - Mangeea ...
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Adventure afterward anchored Anson appeared Archipelago arms arrived boats Bougainville Burney called canoes Cape Horn Captain Captain Cook Carteret chief Chron circumnavigation coast commander continued Cook Cook's course crew descried discovered discovery Dutch east Easter Island Endeavour English expedition feet fire gave harbour Hawkesworth's Coll Hist hogs Holland honour Hugh Palliser inhabitants Isles Juan king land latitude leagues length longitude Magellan Maire Mendana Moluccas morning musket narrative natives navigator nearly observed ocean Otaheite Pacific passage passed Pigafetta Port present proceeded Quiros reached received round savages says Schouten seamen seemed seen set sail ship shore sight small islands Society Islands soon South Pole South Sea southern Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron stood Straits Straits of Magellan Tierra del Fuego tion Tonga Van Diemen's Land vessels visited voyage Wallis westward winds wood Zealand
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Seite 64 - ... besought almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea.
Seite 140 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell...
Seite 9 - The Swiss Family Robinson; or, the Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island. With Explanatory Notes and Illustrations. First and Second Series. New Edition, complete in one volume, 3s. 6d. Geography for my Children. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Seite 349 - To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed in many respects to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.
Seite 242 - as large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it : he had horns and wings, yet he crept so slowly through the grass, that if I had not been afeard I might have touched him.°...
Seite 1 - English Synonymes. With copious Illustrations and Explanations, drawn from the best Writers.
Seite 292 - But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends, I might have extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other.
Seite 265 - Ocean, with a good ship expressly sent out on discoveries, a healthy crew, and not in want either of stores or of provisions, would have been betraying not only a want of perseverance, but of judgment, in supposing the South Pacific Ocean to have been so well explored that nothing remained to be done in it.
Seite 119 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Seite 22 - ... magnitude, and separated by two vast oceans from all the earth hitherto known by civilized man ! And how would his magnanimous spirit have been consoled, amidst the afflictions of age and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered ; and the nations, and tongues, and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere...