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. XIV.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXIV.
CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV.
PART III.--BOOK II.
An Account of a Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World, performed in his Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5: Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution.
General Introduction
CHAP. I. From our departure from England to leaving the Society Isles the first time.
SECT. I. Passage from Deptford to the Cape of Good Hope, with an Account of several Incidents that happened by the Way, and Transactions there.
II. Departure from the Cape of Good Hope, in search of a Southern Continent.
III. Sequel of the Search for a Southern Continent, between the Meridian of the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand; with an Account of the Separation of the two Ships, and the Arrival of the Resolution in Dusky Bay.
IV. Transactions in Dusky Bay, with an Account of several Interviews with the Inhabitants.
V. Directions for sailing in and out of Dusky Bay, with an Account of the adjacent Country, its Produce, and Inhabitants: Astronomical and Nautical Observations.
VI. Passage from Dusky Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound, with an Account of some Water Spouts, and of our joining the Adventure.
VII. Captain Furneaux's Narrative, from the Time the two Ships were separated, to their joining again in Queen Charlotte's Sound, with some Account of Van Diemen's Land.
VIII. Transactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound, with some Remarks on the Inhabitants.
IX. Route from New Zealand to Otaheite, with an Account of some low Islands, supposed to be the same that were seen by M. de Bougainville.
X. Arrival of the Ships at Otaheite, with an Account of the critical Situation they were in, and of several Incidents that happened while they lay in Oaiti-piha Bay.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
- 2: Passage from Ulietea to the Friendly Islands
- 3: Passage from Ulietea to the Friendly Isles
- 4: After Magalhaens had shewed them the way
- 5: This same Quiros was the first sent out
- 6: And between the longitude of 142 deg
- 7: Afterwards fell in with Maitea
- 8: I endeavoured to make a direct course to Otaheite
- 9: Others preferred large good sailing frigates
- 10: With perseverance and resolution in their commanders
- 11: Officers Names Captain 1 Tobias Furneaux
- 12: Was inspissated by evaporation
- 13: To make astronomical observations
- 14: Appended to his Account of Cook's First Voyage
- 15: 2 An account of the voyage performed by Magalhaens
- 16: One by Quiros above mentioned
- 17: And appeared in two volumes 4to
- 18: An achromatic refracting telescope
- 19: Passage from Deptford to the Cape of Good Hope
- 20: I gave a copy of these instructions to Captain Furneaux
- 21: And on the evening of the 29th anchored in Funchiale Road
- 22: Which strangers may mistake for Port Praya
- 23: And when immerged in the surface of the sea
- 24: And were now accompanied by albatrosses
- 25: Of longitude more east than our reckoning
- 26: Soon after arrived at the Mauritius
- 27: Mr Forster strongly importuned me to take him on board
- 28: Between Captain Cook and Mr Forster
- 29: Forster had made some misrepresentations of certain facts
- 30: The fermentation of substances
- 31: And shutting while it was hauling up again
- 32: The water is cooler at a great depth than at its surface
- 33: That gentleman's labours at the Cape
- 34: And to get the spritsail yard in
- 35: Penguins began to make their appearance
- 36: 5 Our latitude at this time was 55 deg
- 37: Freshened and brought with it snow and sleet
- 38: Which were of the peterel tribe
- 39: From which Mr Forster shot a penguin and some peterels
- 40: That penguins never go far from land
- 41: Finding ourselves to leeward of this ice
- 42: Were the only albatrosses that had not now forsaken us
- 43: With the telescopes fixed to our sextants
- 44: Which we named Antarctic peterels
- 45: After having repeatedly been up to the mast head
- 46: Called by us in my former voyage Port Egmont Hen
- 47: Attended with thick hazy weather
- 48: And soon after spoke with Captain Furneaux
- 49: We frequently saw penguins and divers
- 50: This morning we saw one penguin
- 51: Being nearly in the latitude and longitude just mentioned
- 52: Accompanied with snow and sleet
- 53: Attended with hazy sleet and drizzling rain
- 54: Having frequent showers of snow and sleet
- 55: Being in the latitude of 59 deg
- 56: Being in the latitude of 56 deg
- 57: I put a thermometer by each
- 58: And passing through the zenith
- 59: Now I have mentioned the inspissated juice of wort
- 60: Accompanied by the two Mr Forsters
- 61: Had not the man hallooed to us
- 62: I took Mr Hodges to a large cascade
- 63: After restoring the sportsmen to their boat
- 64: Whom I detached in one boat to Goose Cove
- 65: Accompanied by Mr Forster and Mr Hodges
- 66: I gave to each a hatchet and a knife
- 67: Accompanied by Mr Pickersgill and the two Mr Forsters
- 68: Or some other inlet to the northward
- 69: With an Account of the adjacent Country
- 70: As well as the one in Pickersgill Harbour
- 71: The fourth sort is something bigger than a teal
- 72: The poy bird is less than the wattle bird
- 73: That its longitude was 106 deg
- 74: During the time these spouts lasted
- 75: But I was then below looking at the barometer
- 76: They assumed a bent or incurvated shape
- 77: We kept between the latitude of 52 deg
- 78: Which Tasman has not mentioned
- 79: We anchored in seven fathoms water
- 80: Which the surgeon called gum lac
- 81: We made land again in about 39 deg
- 82: We found no ground at seventy fathoms
- 83: We struck our tents on the Motuara
- 84: And who also enquired for Tupia
- 85: And shewed him some potatoes planted there by Mr Fannen
- 86: We discovered four or five canoes
- 87: They would have equally enquired of them for Tupia
- 88: Where there is a want of intermediate links
- 89: Their ideas of female chastity are
- 90: 4 A few miscellaneous observations respecting New Zealand
- 91: The climate of Dusky Bay is spoken unfavourably of
- 92: Of which the natives form their pattoo pattoos
- 93: The longitude was observed as follows
- 94: Being in the latitude of 43 deg
- 95: And only one of them attacked with the scurvy
- 96: His longitude not being confirmed
- 97: These islets were clothed with wood
- 98: Situated in the latitude of 17 deg
- 99: And incapable of deceiving
- 100: Are modified by climate and weather
- 101: The polype like animals forming the lithophytes
- 102: We presently carried out two kedge anchors
- 103: One of this sort of Earees I had
- 104: I was informed that Waheatoua was come into the neighourhood
- 105: Whereas Pretane is in every child's mouth
- 106: A sufficient number of hogs for our use
- 107: Toutaha Tiyo no Toutee matty Toutaha Toutaha
- 108: I carried him again to Oparree in my boat
- 109: And was herself subject to the Earee
- 110: Well knowing that Otoo was not in the neighbourhood
- 111: We dropped some more beads to him
- 112: And almost every word ending in a vowel
- 113: I learnt that my old friend Oree
- 114: Taking with us the man who came back with Mr Sparrman
- 115: His words were to this effect Oree meaning me
- 116: Before Oree himself came to inform me
- 117: Offering them to a little puppy
- 118: Ulietea With an Account of what happened there
- 119: Oreo ordered an heava to be acted for our entertainment
- 120: Observed the chief to divide the entrails
- 121: Accordingly we embarked in our boat
- 122: Many canoes also came off with fruit and hogs
- 123: De Bougainville came from Pretane
- 124: I know but little of Waheatoua of Tiarrabou
- 125: If they sacrificed to the Eatua
- 126: The liquor which they make from the plant called Ava ava
- 127: Between Point Venus and Oaiti piha
- 128: Passage from Ulietea to the Friendly Islands
- 129: Seeming to offer both anchorage and landing
- 130: I went on shore with Captain Furneaux and Mr Forster
- 131: Which answered to the punctures of the Otaheiteans
- 132: Compared to that of Otaheite
- 133: My friend Attago immediately got up
- 134: And asked Attago several questions relative thereto
- 135: Was by the first mentioned Afiatouca
- 136: Being conducted by Attago down to the water side
- 137: And the bearers said it was a present from the Areeke
- 138: 6 Attago conducted us to another circle
- 139: Or fixed upon bananoe leaves
- 140: That wherever we met with a casuarina
- 141: And delightfully situated among odoriferous shrubs
- 142: And were strewed with a white powder
- 143: And perhaps dreading the arrival of Dr Sparrman
- 144: Nor was this the time for roots and shaddocks
- 145: With the meshes wrought exactly like ours
- 146: But fit for distant navigation
- 147: The custom of tattowing or puncturing the skin prevails
- 148: Their bows and arrows are but indifferent
- 149: The buildings called Afiatoucas
- 150: Of a large lagoon of salt water in Anamocka
- 151: The Society Isles are well furnished with wood
- 152: From their similarity with the Otaheitan
- 153: There were several people on Portland
- 154: Cape Turnagain at this time bore about N
- 155: And stretched over for Cape Palliser
- 156: We discovered on the east side of Cape Teerawhitte
- 157: Leaning against the rails to leeward
- 158: Particularly an old man named Goubiah
- 159: The day we anchored in the Cove
- 160: As also the old boar and sow given them by Captain Furneaux
- 161: They told our people they had stolen them
- 162: One of the arguments they made use of to Tupia
- 163: And stood over for Cape Teerawhitte
- 164: On the east side of Cape Teerawhitte
- 165: And the immense height of the mountains in New Zealand
- 166: Which separates this cove from Shag Cove
- 167: Who cook and frequently collect their food
- 168: The northern isle of New Zealand
- 169: But though we are too much polished to be cannibals
- 170: We ceased to see penguins and seals
- 171: We also saw an antarctic peterel
- 172: Within the antarctic or polar circle
- 173: As well as the peterels above mentioned
- 174: The wind having veered more to the E
- 175: By the vast number of blue peterels
- 176: Which gave the longitude as follows
- 177: Within the antartic polar circle
- 178: Were never seen in the Greenland seas
- 179: And attended with snow and sleet
- 180: Quiros speaks of this land as being large
- 181: The wind having veered more to the west
- 182: De Bougainville seems to have run down under that meridian
- 183: Who is said to have visited the antipodes
- 184: We had reached the latitude of 59 deg
- 185: With the inclemencies of weather
- 186: That if possible some adequate remedy
- 187: Considerably within the visible horizon
- 188: Supposing it to be all eatable
- 189: He was taken ill with a bilious disorder
- 190: We found soundings thirty and forty fathoms
- 191: Several plantations of potatoes
- 192: Then their old guide hoisted his flag
- 193: They found another small shrub
- 194: When a breeze sprung up at west
- 195: There was a pillar consisting of a single stone
- 196: The natives told us they passed the night in these huts
- 197: Side must be with easterly winds
- 198: The women are but little punctured
- 199: Like the Patoo patoo of New Zealand
- 200: But if the stones are factitious
- 201: Mahine afterwards presented this piece to my father
- 202: Have been produced by a volcano
- 203: Partakes of that of Otaheite
- 204: Intending to touch at the Marquesas
- 205: For the boat had no sooner left the kedge anchor
- 206: A man in a canoe offered me a small pig for a six inch spike
- 207: With three or four little pigs
- 208: These are disjoined by deep narrow vallies
- 209: Their clothing is the same as at Otaheite
- 210: They are built after the same manner as at Otaheite
- 211: Under the command of Lieutenant Cooper
- 212: Two leagues distant from the west end of Ti oo kea
- 213: Which did not exceed the plains of Matavai and Oparree
- 214: And that of the former Tiyo no Towha
- 215: We had not been long gone from Oparree
- 216: And mutual presents having passed between Otoo and me
- 217: One spar is fixed to the transverse beams
- 218: Their targets or breast plates were made of wicker work
- 219: I received a present from Towha
- 220: As soon as Towha had ended his speech
- 221: I being at this time on shore with Tarevatoo
- 222: I went ashore with Tee and Tarevatoo
- 223: The other three canoes belonged to Maritata
- 224: Or any other belonging to Tiarabou
- 225: They knew they should be obliged to make restitution
- 226: Than any Otaheitean we had ever seen
- 227: I resolved to leave Otaheite in a few days
- 228: We returned with Oedidee on board
- 229: And were come to Oparree to be reviewed before the king
- 230: And desired the pahie might be called Britannia
- 231: To assist him in reducing to obedience the chief of Eimea
- 232: The fleet of Tiarabou is not included in this account
- 233: The Eowas and Whannos always eat with the king
- 234: But the numerous wounds of the Otaheitan chiefs
- 235: Than it is by the Otaheitans at this day
- 236: The Arrival of the Ship at the Island of Huaheine
- 237: A person came and told me Oree wanted to see me
- 238: But I learnt from Oedidee that he came soon after
- 239: As also the canoes and the Whenooa
- 240: Which no man at Otaheite ever durst attempt
- 241: A Report of two ships being at Huaheine
- 242: Which they called Marai no te Oore
- 243: For an estate which Oedidee called his
- 244: As also bread fruit and plantains
- 245: A person in the house told us they were Eatua no te Toutou
- 246: When Tootaha swayed the sceptre
- 247: And his own Whenooa or district
- 248: Being the day after leaving Ulietea
- 249: And named it Palmerston Island
- 250: It was hardly possible to come to parley with them
- 251: They pointed out to us Anamocka
- 252: Bringing with them yams and shaddocks
- 253: I addressed several people for the adze
- 254: Several canoes being at the ship
- 255: And passed between it and Oghao
- 256: Extending to a latteen yard above
- 257: Or that of some neighbouring isle
- 258: And surrounded by a reef of coral rocks
- 259: Having the Isle of Aurora to windward
- 260: Which is called by the natives Ambrym
- 261: A musquet discharged in the air had no effect
- 262: They were unwilling we should go off the beach
- 263: Is a belt or cord which they wear round the waist
- 264: Each with small prickles on the edges
- 265: But perhaps not at all times so temperate as at Otaheite
- 266: And having weathered Threehills
- 267: Between Montagu and Hinchinbrook isles
- 268: The little islet before mentioned N
- 269: Repeating signs to haul the boat up
- 270: An arrow struck Mr Gilbert's naked breast
- 271: And returned once more to the buoys
- 272: Drank great quantities of water
- 273: When they were above musquet shot off
- 274: Amongst whom was our trusty friend Paowang
- 275: Calling them all hogs Booga or Boogas
- 276: All these islands are to be seen from Tanna
- 277: And the volcano was unusually furious
- 278: To entertain us with cocoa nuts
- 279: And all were covered with palm thatch
- 280: Paowang took little or no notice of him
- 281: Nor is the volcano on the highest part of the ridge
- 282: Amongst whom were Paowang and Wha a gou
- 283: Or to a fancied idea of cleanliness
- 284: Full of different shrubberies
- 285: On the east side of the harbour
- 286: Land birds are not more numerous than at Otaheite
- 287: We understood they came from Erronan
- 288: In throwing them they make use of a becket
- 289: And in the longitude of 169 deg
- 290: His tune was different as to the composition
- 291: The island of Tanna extended from S
- 292: Side of Mallicollo to within half a league
- 293: End of Mallicollo extending from S
- 294: Had black short frizzled hair like the natives of Mallicollo
- 295: Is one of those mentioned by Quiros
- 296: Is that of Tierra del Espiritu Santo
- 297: We saw still much less of Paoom and its neighbourhood
- 298: In the same direction lie Erromango
- 299: And attended with the least expence to the observer
- 300: And covered with the finest forests
- 301: As well as much liberal observation
- 302: As we were steering to the south
- 303: Which was an island known by the name of Balabea
- 304: Where the shore was mostly covered with mangrove trees
- 305: On the banks of this were several plantations
- 306: Our excursion was finished by noon
- 307: The chief of the isle of Balabea
- 308: The taro plantations were prettily watered by little rills
- 309: And bounded by a fine wild shrubbery
- 310: See his Description of the Isthmus
- 311: And which they use as at Tanna and Mallicollo
- 312: In the same manner as at Tanna
- 313: The island is not thinly peopled on the sea coast
- 314: Extended to a small lateen yard
- 315: Mankind are fond of being tyrants
- 316: These exactly fitted the loop in the middle of the sling
- 317: But the people of New Caledonia
- 318: At noon the island of Balabea bore S
- 319: We had now no sight of Balabea
- 320: About seven miles from the foreland
- 321: Extending towards the foreland
- 322: Along the outside of the shoals
- 323: Precisely of the same shape as those we had seen at Balade
- 324: Where a ship could supply herself with a mast or yard
- 325: And blew a strong gale by squalls
- 326: Except when we were at anchor before Balade
- 327: Which accompanied the swift descent of this meteor
- 328: Each tree producing but one cabbage
- 329: We found seventy fathoms water
- 330: The place where an observatory
- 331: We went to the place where I left the hogs and fowls
- 332: I had carried over a sow to leave with him
- 333: In the cove next without Cannibal Cove
- 334: Laid over them a handful of green celery
- 335: The error of the chart is therefore 0 deg
- 336: And we naturally thought of our consort the Adventure
- 337: From leaving new zealand to our return to england
- 338: Attended with thick hazy weather
- 339: Albatrosses and blue peterels seen
- 340: And in the longitude of 77 deg
- 341: We were north and south of the high land of Cape Deseada
- 342: Which opens into the straits of Magalhaens
- 343: Which appeared on the east side of York Minster
- 344: And to carry out a kedge to windward
- 345: By the sketch Mr Pickersgill had taken of them
- 346: Where Mr Pickersgill had arrived but just before
- 347: Though I doubt not there is anchorage
- 348: Here are several other aquatic
- 349: BERBERIS ilicifolia et mitior