454 THE PROGRESS OF MARITIME DISCOVERY. 
had reaped by the voyages of Verazzani and Cartier. The con- 
sequences of this emulation were not unimportant. Bougainville 
(1766—1768) completed the discovery of the Solomon Islands, 
which Mendana had only partly seen; Wallis made the world 
acquainted with the beauties of Tahiti, and Byron explored the 
unvisited coasts of Patagonia. But the fame of these worthy 
mariners was soon eclipsed by a greater renown, for, in the same 
year that Wallis returned from his expedition, Cook sailed from 
the port of Plymouth on his first voyage round the world. 
