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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XLL— The First Scientific Voyage of Circumnavigation— The Dol- 

 phin and Tamar — Byron in Patagonia — Falkland Islands — Islands of Disap- 

 pointment — Arrival at Tinian — Byron versus Anson — The Voyage Home — 

 Wallis and Carteret — Their Observations in Patagonia — Wallis at Tahiti — 

 A Desperate Battle — Nails lose their Value — A Tahitian Romance — Pitcairn's 

 Island — Queen Charlotte's Islands — New Britain — The Voyage Home — 

 A Man-of-War Destroyed by Fire 436 



CHAPTER XLIL — Colonization of the Falkland Islands — Antoine de Bougain- 

 ville — His Voyage around the World — Adventure at Montevideo — The Pata- 

 gonians — Taking Possession of Tahiti — French Gallantry — Ceremonies of 

 Reception — Sojourn at the Island— Aotourou — The First Female Circumnavi- 

 gator — Famine on Board — Remarkable Cascade — Arrival at the Moluccas — 

 Incidents there — Return Home...., 452 



CHAPTER XLIII. — Expedition despatched at the Instance of the Royal So- 

 ciety — Lieutenant James Cook — Incidents of the Voyage — A Night on Shore 

 in Terra del Fuego — Arrival at Tahiti — The Natives pick their Pockets — The 

 Observatory — A Native chews a Quid of Tobacco — The Transit of Venus — 

 Two of the Marines take unto themselves Wives — New Zealand — Adventures 

 there — Remarkable War-Canoe — Cannibalism demonstrated — Theory of a 

 Southern Continent subverted — New Holland — Botany Bay — The Endeavor 

 on the Rocks — Expedient to stop the Leak — A Conflagration — Passage 

 through a Reef — Arrival at Batavia — Mortality on the Voyage Home — Cook 

 promoted to the Rank of Commander 461 



CHAPTER XLIV.— Cook's Second Voyage— A Storm— Separation of the Ships 

 — Aurora Australis — New Zealand — Six Water-Spouts at once — Tahiti again 

 — Petty Thefts of the Natives — Cook visits the Tahitian Theatre — Omai — ■ 

 Arrival at the Friendly Islands — The Fleet witness a Feast of Human Flesh 

 — The New Hebrides — New Caledonia — Return Home — Honors bestowed 

 upon Cook 482 



CHAPTER XL V.— Cook's Third Voyage— The Northwest Passage— Omai— Hia 

 Reception at Home — The Crew forego their Grog — Discovery of the Sandwich 

 Islands — Nootka Sound — The Natives — Cape Prince of Wales — Two Conti- 

 nents in Sight — Icy Cape — Return to the Sandwich Islands — Cook is deified 

 — Interview with Tereoboo — Subsequent Difficulties — A Skirmish — Pitched 

 Battle and Death of Cook — Recovery of a Portion of his Remains — Funeral 

 Ceremonies— Life and Services of Cook 494 



CHAPTER XLVL— Louis XVI. and the Science of Navigation— Voyage of 

 Laperouse — Arrival at Easter Island — Address of the Natives — Owhyhee— 

 Trade at Mowee — Survey of the American Coast — A Remarkable Inlet — Dis- 

 tressing Calamity — Sojourn at Monterey — Run across the Pacific — The 

 Japanese Waters — Arrival at Petropaulowski — Affray at Navigators' Isles — 

 Laperouse arrives at Botany Bay, and is never seen again, alive or dead — 

 Voyages made in Search of him — D'Entrecasteaux — Dillon — D'Urville — Dis- 

 covery of numerous Relics of the Ships at Manicolo — Theory of the Fate of 

 Laperouse-— Erection of a Monument to his Memory 512 



CHAPTER XLVIL— The Transplantation of the Bread-Fruit Tree— The Voyage 

 of the Bounty— A Mutiny— Bligh, the Captain, Avith Eighteen Men, cast adrift 

 in th* launch— Incidents of the Voyage from Tahiti to Timor— Terrible 



