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 increase 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 those 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 VOLUME. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. Page i An Explanation of the Nautical Terms, not generally underflood, which occur in this Work. COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE. CHA P. L The Paffage from the Downs to Rio de Janeiro. CHA P. 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 Coaft of Patagonia; with a Defcription 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. СНА Р. 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 Coaft on each Side. 48 СНАР. 1 The Paffage from Cape Monday, in the Streight of Magellan, into the South Seas; with some general remarks on the Navigation of that Straight. CHA P. VIII. 62 Run from the Western Entrance of the Streight of Magellan, to the Islands of Disappointment. CHA P. IX. 70 The Discovery of King George's Islands, with a Defcription of them, and an Account of feveral Incidents that happened there. CHA P. X. 79 The Run from King George's Islands to the Islands of Saypan, Tinian, and Aiguigan; with an Account of feveral Islands that were difcovered in that Track. 87 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 Account of that Ifland, its Inhabitants and Productions, nd thence to Batavia. 100 CHA P. XIII. Tranfactions at Batavia, and Departure from that 106 CHA P. XIV. The Paffage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to England. 109 САР CAPTAIN WALLIS'S VOYAGE: The Paffage to the Coast of Patagonia, with fome Account of the Natives. CHA P. 11. 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. 153 The Paffage from the Streight of Magellan, to King George the Third's Island, called Otaheite, in the South Sea, with an Account of the Discovery of feveral other Islands, and a Defcription of their Inhabi tants. CHA P. V. 162 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 CHA P. VI. 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 Intercourse. 190 С НА Р. CHA P. VII. An Account of an Expedition to discover the inland Part of the Country, and our other Tranfactions, till we quitted the Ifland to continue our Voyage. 205 A more particular Account of the Inhabitants of Otabrite, and of their domeftic Life, Manners, and Arts. C. HA P. IX. 211 Paffage from Otaheite to Tinian; with fome Account of feveral other Islands that were discovered in the South Seas. 220 CHA P. X. 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. CHA P. XII. 226 Transactions at Batavia, and an Account of the Passage from thence to the Cape of Good Hope. CHA P. XIII. 233 An Account of our Tranfactions 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 СНАР. |