CONTENTS. Xill 
Giinnbjorn. — Bjorne Herjulfson. —- Leif.— John Vaz Cortereal.— John and 
Sebastian Cabot.—Retrospective View of the Beginnings of English Navigation. 
—Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.—Vincent Yaiiez Pinson.—Cortez.—Verazzani. 
—Cartier.—The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean. ° - Page 454 
CHAPTER XXYV. 
Vasco Nuiiez de Balboa.—His Discovery of the Pacific, and subsequent Fate.—- 
Ferdinand Magellan.—Sebastian el Cano, the first Circumnavigator of the 
Globe.—Discoveries of Pizarro and Cortez.—Urdaneta.x—Juan T’ernandez.— 
Mendoza.—Drake.—Discoveries of the Portuguese and Dutch in the Wesiern 
Pacifie.—Attempts of the Dutch and English to discover North-East and North- 
West Passages to India.—Sir Hugh Willoughby and Chancellor.—Frobisher.— 
Davis. — Barentz.— His Wintering in Nova Zembla. — Quiros.—Torres.— 
Schouten.—Le Maire.—Abel Tasman.—Hudson.—Baffin.—Dampier.—Anson. 
—Byron.— Wallis and Carteret.—Bougainyille . A : - 464 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
What had Cook’s Predecessors left him to discover ?—His first Voyage-—Discovery 
of the Society Islands, and of the East Coast of New Holland.—His second 
Voyage.—Discovery of the Hervey Group.—Researches in the South Sea—The 
New Hebrides.—Discovery of New Caledonia and of South Georgia.—His 
third Voyage.—The Sandwich Islands. — New Albion.—West Georgia. — 
Cook’s Murder.— Vancouver.—La Peyrouse 4 2 : - 485 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
Scoresby.—The Arctic Navigators.—Ross.—Parry.—Sufferings of Franklin and 
his Companions on his Overland Expedition in 1821.—Parry’s Sledge-journey 
to the North Pole.—Sir John Franklin.—M‘Clure.—Kane.—M ‘Clintock.— 
South Polar Expeditions.—Bellinghausen. — Weddell. — Biscoe. — Balleny. ~ 
Dumont d’Urville.—Wilkes.—Sir James Ross.—Recent Scientific Voyages of 
Circumnavigation . ° ° . . - . - 496 
