A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
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A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:
FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. XVII.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXIV.
A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:
FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. XVII.
EDINBURGH:
_Printed by James Ballantyne & Co_.
FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET; BALDWIN, CRADOCK AND JOY, AND GALE AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON; AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.
1816.
CONTENTS TO VOL. XVII.
CHAP. V. _Continued_. Captain King's Journal of the Transactions on returning to the Sandwich Islands.
SECT. VI. General Account of the Sandwich Islands. Their Number, Names, and Situation. OWHYHEE. Its Extent, and Division into Districts. Account of its Coasts, and the adjacent Country. Volcanic Appearances. Snowy Mountains. Their Height determined. Account of a Journey into the Interior Parts of the Country. MOWEE. TAHOOHOWA. MOROTOI. RANAI. WOAHOO. ATOOI. ONEEHEOW. OREEHOUA. TAAOORA. Climate. Winds. Currents. Tides. Animals and Vegetables. Astronomical Observations.
VII. General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued. Of the Inhabitants. Their Origin. Persons. Pernicious effects of the Ava. Numbers. Disposition and Manners. Reasons for supposing them not Cannibals. Dress and Ornaments. Villages and Houses. Food. Occupations and Amusements. Addicted to Gaming. Their extraordinary Dexterity in Swimming. Arts and Manufactures. Curious Specimens of their Sculpture. Kipparee, or Method of Painting Cloth. Mats. Fishing Hooks. Cordage. Salt Pans. Warlike Instruments.
SECT. VIII. General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued. Government. People divided into three Classes. Power of Erreetaboo. Genealogy of the Kings of Owhyhee and Mowee. Power of the Chiefs. State of the inferior Class. Punishment of Crimes. Religion. Society of Priests. The Orono. Their Idols. Songs chanted by the Chiefs, before they drink Ava. Human Sacrifices. Custom of Knocking out the fore Teeth. Notions with regard to a future State. Marriages. Remarkable Instance of Jealousy. Funeral Rites.
CHAP. VI. Transactions during the second Expedition to the North, by the way of Kamtschatka; and on the Return Home by the way of Canton and the Cape of Good Hope.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
- 2: Affecting Departure from Bolcheretsk
- 3: Of the Kamtschadale Habitations
- 4: We are visited by a Chanos Indian Cacique
- 5: Excepting Morotinnee and Tahoora
- 6: Called Mouna Roa or the extensive mountain
- 7: With a hundred and sixty fathoms of line
- 8: These plantations consist of the tarrow 4
- 9: Who go thither to fetch the wild or horse plantain
- 10: They threw stones into several of these chinks
- 11: Ranai is about three leagues distant from Mowee and Morotoi
- 12: Oneeheow lies five leagues to the westward of Atooi
- 13: Sixty puncheons more were salted for sea store
- 14: And 134 sets when at Atooi and Oneeheow
- 15: General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued
- 16: The Erees are very free from these complaints
- 17: 200 Atooi 54
- 18: Notwithstanding our utmost endeavours to prevent it
- 19: Why the New Zealanders should retain the repast
- 20: Relative to the custom of tattowing
- 21: Consisting of a feathered cloak and helmet
- 22: As is the fashion among the Otaheiteans and New Zealanders
- 23: And particular kinds of plantains
- 24: Is applauded as the best dancer
- 25: The smooth water beyond the surf
- 26: And their manufacturing of mats
- 27: The salt we procured at Atooi and Oneeheow
- 28: The slings have nothing singular about them
- 29: These gentlemen have fully testified
- 30: And is called at Owhyhee Eree taboo
- 31: The government of these islands descends to Maiha maiha
- 32: Without coming to a quarrel with Pareea
- 33: Till we discovered the cloisters of Kakooa in Karakakooa Bay
- 34: Which they told me were Eatooas
- 35: But was designed as a propitiatory sacrifice to the Eatooa
- 36: Whilst I was ashore at the observatory at Karakakooa Bay
- 37: And we observed that the morai
- 38: Who were going from Oneeheow to Tahoora
- 39: Being then in the latitude 26 deg
- 40: A few albatrosses and sheerwaters
- 41: And in the longitude of 160 deg
- 42: Between the latitudes of 44 deg
- 43: The entrance of Awatska Bay bore N
- 44: According to the accounts given us at Oonalashka
- 45: And the commander of the ostrog
- 46: Several of our gentlemen paid their visits to the serjeant
- 47: Inviting him and his officers to Bolcheretsk
- 48: That a person had arrived there in a Russian galliot
- 49: Affecting Departure from Bolcheretsk
- 50: Belonging to the Kamtschadales
- 51: Before we were met by the Toion
- 52: And are therefore generally hung upon the sledge
- 53: Natcheekin is a very inconsiderable ostrog
- 54: And who immediately dispatched a light boat to Bolcheretsk
- 55: In company with Major Behm was Captain Shmaleff
- 56: Whose rank is between that of a serjeant and a corporal
- 57: That extends to the sea of Okotsk
- 58: Both at Ingiginsk and Bolcheretsk
- 59: And put on a rich European dress
- 60: And generous treatment we had met with at Bolcheretsk
- 61: Two merchants from Bolcheretsk
- 62: And promised they should be sent from Okotsk
- 63: Whose account of Kamtschatka
- 64: The people were sent to haul the seine
- 65: And I was informed by our surgeons
- 66: We dropped anchor again in ten fathoms
- 67: And toward the volcano mountain
- 68: As well as the coast between it and Awatska Bay
- 69: Laid down between Kamtschatskoi Noss and Olutorskoi Noss
- 70: At which time Saint Thadeus's Noss bore N
- 71: As well as the land about the Tschukotskoi Noss
- 72: Between the latitudes of 68 deg
- 73: We also wished to pay another visit to our Tschutski friends
- 74: The wind freshened from the westward
- 75: And the depth of water sixteen fathoms
- 76: That will admit me farther north
- 77: Which is somewhat larger than the common gull
- 78: Return through Beering's Strait
- 79: We therefore kept working to windward
- 80: With the report of Captain Gore
- 81: The easternmost point in latitude 65 deg
- 82: Says Deshneff in another account
- 83: Which the Tschutski call a large country
- 84: Point of Asia to the gulf of Anadir
- 85: In regard to that on the north of Siberia
- 86: On his arrival at Ust janskoe Simovie
- 87: We conjectured that most of what we saw was moveable
- 88: The island Saint Laurence bearing S
- 89: The latitude by observation was 53 deg
- 90: They were killed by the Tschutski
- 91: Nautical and Geographical Description of Awatska Bay
- 92: Whom the serjeant advised us to send for
- 93: To rip the damaged sheathing from the larboard bow
- 94: And the sheathing repaired on the 3d
- 95: Who was a passenger in the galliot
- 96: Since Major Behm came to the command
- 97: For the Kamtschadales assured us
- 98: Where a Kamtschadale village had been formerly situated
- 99: And on the 25th he took leave of us to return to Bolcheretsk
- 100: Particularly with two pictures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- 101: The cubs will not leave her side
- 102: If the Kamtschadales are to be credited
- 103: To a place so well sheltered as Awatska
- 104: And one to the south of Awatska Bay
- 105: The deepest water within is seven fathoms
- 106: After our arrival in Awatska Bay
- 107: According to the Greenwich rate
- 108: Accumulated Error by Error by New Rate
- 109: By ascertaining the true longitude of places
- 110: Latitude deduced from meridian zenith distances of the sun
- 111: Captain Krusenstern recommends
- 112: La Perouse had erected a monument to him also
- 113: General Account of Kamtschatka
- 114: Or within nine miles of Bolcheretsk
- 115: The thermometer stood at 32 deg
- 116: And two kinds of dwarfish pines or cedars
- 117: In the neighbourhood of the Kamtschatka river
- 118: It is a common observation amongst the Kamtschadales
- 119: And is called by the natives raka
- 120: And the rest of the body of a light chesnut
- 121: Its skin is much valued by the Kamtschadales
- 122: So that on our journey to Bolcheretsk
- 123: One entire view of Kamtschadale zoology
- 124: Which is called by the Kamtschadales Tchavitsi
- 125: List of Animals found in Kamtschadale
- 126: Which seem to be of wolfish descent
- 127: Respecting which it is most certain
- 128: This gentleman specifies a very unreasonable notion
- 129: Steller enumerates five different species of this plant
- 130: Of the Kamtschadale Habitations
- 131: From the Jenesei to the Anadir
- 132: With farther orders to repair again to Kamtschatka
- 133: A large body ascended the river Kamtschatka
- 134: The Toion has likewise the appointment of a civil officer
- 135: Thence to be conveyed by land to Kiachta
- 136: Which was to sail on a trading voyage to Oonalashka
- 137: The jourt consists of one apartment
- 138: The proportion of jourts and balagans
- 139: And excelling their Kamtschadale neighbours
- 140: And their only habitations are like the Kamtschadale jourts
- 141: And more especially the Kamtschadales
- 142: That if the suggestions which Krusenstern has given
- 143: The power of the tayon is said to be considerable
- 144: Is not spoken highly of by Krusenstern
- 145: Thinks very highly of the Kamtschadale character
- 146: Belonging to the Kamtschadales expired
- 147: Who was interpreter to Spanberg in his voyage to Japan
- 148: The two strangers were conducted to Petersburgh
- 149: Driven to the Eastward of the Kuriles
- 150: Having cleared the entrance of Awatska Bay
- 151: We saw the second of the Kurile Islands
- 152: By part of the supposed land of Jeso and Staten Island
- 153: The leach rope of the Resolution's fore top sail gave way
- 154: The northernmost land in sight
- 155: The wind shifting to the southward
- 156: One answering to the above description of Kaempfer
- 157: But to the southward of the hummock island before mentioned
- 158: We still continued to pass much pumice stone
- 159: Sulphur Island we place in latitude 24 deg
- 160: Being now only twenty one leagues from the Bashee Islands
- 161: The Grand Lema bore from the Prata Island
- 162: Have gone either entirely to the north of the Lema Isles
- 163: Especially by the expedition under Krusenstern
- 164: Having passed through the Straits of De Vries
- 165: Placed by Jansen in latitude 35 deg
- 166: If I did not mean to visit the English gentlemen at Macao
- 167: Who pointing out to us the situation of the Typa
- 168: Which is thirteen leagues from Macao
- 169: With an intention of leaving Canton the following one
- 170: The reasons of my journey to Canton
- 171: By Peres le Comte and Du Halde
- 172: Sonnerat to be in the whole city
- 173: To go along with the stores to Macao
- 174: And the northern coast of China
- 175: He will steer to the southward
- 176: And in Macao harbour at 5 h 50 m
- 177: Pickled 0 2 8 Ditto
- 178: We were obliged to warp out into the entrance of the Typa
- 179: Captain Gore thought it adviseable to land
- 180: Other large screens or partitions
- 181: Pourroit se fier ou pour conduire le vaisseau au port
- 182: And was returned to Luco again
- 183: That between the violence of the surf
- 184: Except the plantains and shaddocks
- 185: And denies that Dampier met with it here
- 186: ' Whilst great praise is due to Monsieur Turgot
- 187: That as Dr Franklin acted on his own authority
- 188: Pulo Puissang was seen bearing S
- 189: A boat came off from the Banca shore
- 190: The shores of Banca are much bolder
- 191: When Mr Williamson got on board the ship
- 192: The southernmost point in sight S
- 193: We were well supplied with small turtle
- 194: A great many were afflicted with fluxes
- 195: Of longitude west from Java head
- 196: Having informed the packet of our conjectures
- 197: And on the eastward by False Cape
- 198: On quitting the Discovery at Stromness
- 199: Vocabulary of the language of nootka
- 200: The wood of the depending pine
- 201: A skin bladder used in fishing
- 202: A withe of bark for fastening planks
- 203: And those of the Green landers and Esquimaux
- 204: Appendix to the circumnavigations
- 205: And such it is described and ascertained to be
- 206: Account of the Wager and her Equipment
- 207: From being exceedingly tempestuous
- 208: Reduced before by long sickness and the scurvy
- 209: And from the conduct of the commodore
- 210: The night coming on exceedingly tempestuous and rainy
- 211: Among these mutineers who had been left on board
- 212: Notwithstanding our utmost vigilance and care
- 213: And by two lagoons on the north and south of us
- 214: Returned and settled about a league from us
- 215: That Cozens was come to mutiny
- 216: That Mr Cozens might be removed to their tent
- 217: In a wretched punt of our own making
- 218: Opposite to where the barge lay
- 219: This cabal was chiefly held in a large tent
- 220: If we did not return with the barge
- 221: Was now diminished by theft the thieves
- 222: Though the yawl was not far from us
- 223: Next night we put into a little cove
- 224: The yawl lay within us at a grapnel
- 225: And being too many for the barge to carry off
- 226: In the midst was a kind of bier
- 227: At length we reached Montrose Island
- 228: Is much taller than that of our goose berries
- 229: Which authority was confirmed to him by the Spaniards
- 230: And living somewhere to the southward of our Chonos guide
- 231: One of our Men dies from Fatigue
- 232: Yet unpromising as this prospect was
- 233: The next morning Captain Cheap
- 234: Where we discovered six or seven wigwams
- 235: My curiosity led me to visit the neighbouring wigwams
- 236: They employed themselves in erecting their wigwams
- 237: He seemed to be a cacique or chief man among them
- 238: By approving this distinction the cacique shewed to him
- 239: Which is rather frantic than religious
- 240: Upon which the father jumped out of the canoe
- 241: And sew them together with the supplejack or woodbine
- 242: Whether to the northward or southward
- 243: Every now and then eating a limpet
- 244: We land on the Island of Chiloe
- 245: And landed upon the island of Chiloe
- 246: We had two soldiers with drawn spados to attend us
- 247: The corregidore desired the father provincial
- 248: He desired these Jesuits would convert us
- 249: We dined every day with the governor
- 250: And punchos neatly embroidered all round
- 251: At Chaco they had a little earthen fort
- 252: But all the other caciques who had been witnesses of it
- 253: Chaco is very thinly inhabited
- 254: The other soldiers of the garrison
- 255: Not to think of remaining in St Jago
- 256: Without doubt the wheat of Chili is the finest in the world
- 257: They plait it behind in four plaits
- 258: They have a false door to the alcove
- 259: Who had married a very agreeable lady at St Jago
- 260: Upon our entrance into Valparaiso
- 261: The best anchoring place is Talcaguana
- 262: And then shaped a course for Martinico
- 263: The chacing ships no sooner returned
- 264: Commanded by Captain Masterton
- 265: Their Passage through the Streights of Magellan
- 266: May never deviate from your integrity
- 267: Consequently attended with extraordinary events Indeed
- 268: We can't conceive how any transactions relating to the Wager
- 269: The commodore gave a signal to chace
- 270: We sent on board the Pearl four puncheons of water more
- 271: At the same time I ask'd leave to skuttle the long boat
- 272: The commodore and Tryal keeping a head
- 273: The straps of the fore jeer blocks broke
- 274: And the sheet anchor from the gunnel
- 275: Went aboard again to scuttle the decks
- 276: And scuttled for flour in the forehold
- 277: And rowl the cask up Cozens called for more hands
- 278: That Mr Cozens neither on this
- 279: That as Mr Cozens was very strong and healthy
- 280: We therefore launch'd the yawl and went off to them
- 281: The decks and sides abaft drove out
- 282: And brought ashore one cask of beef
- 283: Crying all aloud for the Streights
- 284: This answer not being satisfactory to Captain P mb rt n
- 285: And then we will proceed through the Streights of Magellan
- 286: Mr Cummins said to the captain
- 287: That going through the Streights was the best way
- 288: And found the people unanimous for the Streights of Magellan
- 289: The saragraza we fry in tallow
- 290: The store tent was again robbed
- 291: Addressing himself to the lieutenant
- 292: Mr Bulkeley has honestly clear'd himself
- 293: The slugs did not enter his skin Whether this was design'd
- 294: And pease to suck as would have 'em
- 295: After our return from the cruize
- 296: The carpenter sent his case bottle
- 297: To secure you as a prisoner for the death of Mr Cozens
- 298: I have his answer from Mr Bulkeley
- 299: Gunner's mate Nicholas Griselham
- 300: To know if they were willing to tarry
- 301: Dated on board the Speedwell schooner
- 302: And what surprized us more was
- 303: For the southmost part of land
- 304: Supposing them not to see the southmost land
- 305: We hoisted a skirt of the mainsail
- 306: And doubted not but to find the cutter
- 307: They reach along shore eighteen leagues
- 308: Rocks and breakers all around us
- 309: And steer'd up the Streights S
- 310: Son of the late Lieutenant Caple
- 311: Which is the south entrance of the Streights
- 312: Shore coming into the Streights
- 313: When abreast ef the Sweepstakes Foreland
- 314: The whole length of the Streights
- 315: At noon abreast of Penguin island
- 316: This day I took my departure from Cape Blanco
- 317: Leaving ashore one quarter cask
- 318: Which cask we saw them receive
- 319: Mr Cummins and myself went ashore
- 320: Anchored in fourteen fathom water
- 321: After a strict enquiry into our misfortunes
- 322: They detain'd the brigadier from going back
- 323: Surgeon of ditto And two marines
- 324: But perhaps of missing the Flota
- 325: That he had a company on board his majesty's ship the Severn
- 326: To this proposal the lieutenant consented
- 327: We anchor'd before the city of Rio Janeiro
- 328: Been separated from the boatswain
- 329: And is as follows Nas Fortalesas sedeixem passar
- 330: That they may from thence go to Lisbon
- 331: This morning anchored before the city of Bahia
- 332: Nos abaixo asignados Joam Bulkeley
- 333: Deal esta Trinchado pour nostra Senhora Boa Mortua
- 334: Which was reckon'd worth eighteen moydores