CONTENTS. XIII 



Giinnbjorn. — Bjorne Herjulfson. — Leif. — John Vaz Cortereal. — John and 

 Sebastian Cabot. — Retrospective View of the Beginnings of English Navigation. 

 — Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci. — Vincent Yanez Pinson. — Cortez. — Verazzani. 

 — Cartier. — The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean . . . Page 454 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Vasco Nunez 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. — Juan Fernandez. — 

 Mendoza. — Drake. — Discoveries of the Portuguese and Dutch in the Western 

 Pacific. — 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. — Bougainville .... 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. — LaPeyrouse .... 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'tfrviUe.— Wilkes.— Sir James Boss.— Recent Scientific Voyages of 

 Circumnavigation ...••■■• * fl6 



