[Illustration: NOMAHANNA,
QUEEN OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.]
_London. Published by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley. 1839._
A
NEW VOYAGE
ROUND
THE WORLD,
IN THE YEARS 1823, 24, 25, AND 26.
BY OTTO VON KOTZEBUE,
POST CAPTAIN IN THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1830.
LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY. Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME
Page
KAMTSCHATKA 1
NEW-ARCHANGEL 27
CALIFORNIA, AND THE NEW RUSSIAN SETTLEMENT, ROSS 69
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS 151
THE PESCADORES, RIMSKI-KORSAKOFF, ESCHSCHOLTZ, AND BRONUS ISLANDS 267
THE LADRONES AND PHILIPPINES 279
ST. HELENA 305
ZOOLOGICAL APPENDIX BY PROFESSOR ESCHSCHOLTZ 323
LIST OF PLATES.
Page
Reception of Captain Kotzebue at the Island of Otdia, To face Title of Vol. I.
Plan of Mattaway Bay and Village 200
Chart of the Navigators' Islands 250
Chart of the Islands of Radak and Ralik 288
Nomahanna, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, To face Title of Vol. II.
KAMTSCHATKA.
KAMTSCHATKA.
The wind, which continued favourable to us as far as the Northern Tropic, was succeeded by a calm that lasted twelve days. The ocean, as far as the eye could reach, was as smooth as a mirror, and the heat almost insupportable. Sailors only can fully understand the disagreeableness of this situation. The activity usual on shipboard gave place to the most wearisome idleness. Every one was impatient; some of the men felt assured that we should never have a wind again, and wished for the most violent storm as a change.
One morning we had the amusement of watching two great sword-fish sunning themselves on the surface of the water. I sent out a boat, in the hope that the powerful creatures would, in complaisance, allow us the sport of harpooning them, but they would not wait; they plunged again into the depths of the sea, and we had disturbed their enjoyments in vain.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 2
- 2: The great peninsula of Kamtschatka
- 3: As the smoking and burning of volcanoes
- 4: Ended in nearly exterminating the Kamtschatkans
- 5: The Kamtschatkans believed in their own immortality
- 6: The present Kamtschatkans are an extremely good natured
- 7: Is inhabited by the Tschuktschi
- 8: The very day after we left Kamtschatka
- 9: Under the command of Captain Lasaref
- 10: Have discovered the Aleutian Islands
- 11: And even to the island of Kodiack
- 12: Baronof re founded the settlement
- 13: From these noble trunks the Kalushes form their large canoes
- 14: The more baidars are in company
- 15: The repulsiveness of the Kalush women
- 16: The Kalushes have no fixed residence
- 17: The whole horde assembled round the funeral pile
- 18: The Kalushes are great gamblers
- 19: The Kalushes would all have united against us
- 20: As the geographical longitude of New Archangel
- 21: Don Sanchez was at that time a brave subaltern
- 22: The Jesuits came and made converts
- 23: The insurrection having spread as far as Mexico
- 24: I visited old Sanchez in the Presidio
- 25: Francisco rising among wooded hills
- 26: Our way lay through the stubble
- 27: Than the proselytes of the gente rationale
- 28: This Pueblo lies in a beautiful spot
- 29: Meanwhile the Pueblos will continue to multiply
- 30: Whom Estudillo had brought with him
- 31: Send dragoons into the mountains to catch the free heathens
- 32: Has hitherto remained unvisited by voyagers
- 33: These generally graze on hills
- 34: Falls into the sea at Port Romanzow
- 35: The Spaniards often find Ross very serviceable to them
- 36: The Aleutians find their abode here so agreeable
- 37: Professor Eschscholtz remained at Ross
- 38: Knowing nothing about the affair in Jeddo
- 39: Eschscholtz and the baidars from Ross was still delayed
- 40: Before other baidars could come to his assistance
- 41: The Spaniards call the first Pescadores
- 42: The Sierra Nevada are nowhere visible
- 43: They killed a polecat which had slunk into the tent
- 44: Between the islands Muwe and Morotai
- 45: We could not reach the secure harbour of Hanaruro
- 46: Although they offered to sacrifice a hog to him
- 47: Where the body of the goddess Opuna reposed
- 48: But in Cook's time it was common also among the Yeris
- 49: Often boasted of having obtained the right of drinking Ava
- 50: And some even had their tongues tattooed
- 51: And they were entirely secluded from the Marais
- 52: Parea afterwards followed them
- 53: That Karemaku had strictly adhered to the truth
- 54: Kawarao united an unbounded ambition
- 55: Tameamea declared these animals under a Tabu for ten years
- 56: Tameamea terminated his meritorious career
- 57: Karemaku had condemned the sacrilege
- 58: Took up their residence on Wahu
- 59: Conjointly with a Yeri called Chinau
- 60: Nomahanna triumphantly informed me
- 61: The Governor Chinau came forth
- 62: In my daily visits to Hanaruro
- 63: The Wahuaners have as great a passion for horse racing
- 64: Luxury has made great advances in Wahu
- 65: Nomahanna became so much interested
- 66: Already the island of O Tuai has revolted
- 67: Came an ambassador from Nomahanna
- 68: Karemaku and Kahumanna are absent
- 69: But Nomahanna had no notion of incredulity
- 70: Kahumanna honoured me several times with visits on board
- 71: We left the harbour of Hanaruro
- 72: We again dropped anchor before the harbour of Hanaruro
- 73: In conjunction with the Queen Kahumanna
- 74: But more recently settled here than Bengham
- 75: Kahumanna drove him from his home
- 76: In pursuit of the spermaceti whale
- 77: On the 5th of October we reached the Udirik group
- 78: In a south easterly and north easterly direction
- 79: From the Radak chain to the Bronus Isles
- 80: And Medenilla has been again appointed to the command
- 81: The inhabitants of Guaham have maintained their loyalty
- 82: Grow wild and unnoticed in Lucon
- 83: And some of them very rich they are the Jews of Lucon
- 84: Was sent out to succeed the unfortunate Fulgeros
- 85: And followed by a squadron of hussars
- 86: And joined their Vivas to those of the populace
- 87: When we had reached to longitude 256 deg
- 88: The only one to be seen in the neighbourhood of Longwood
- 89: Another by that of Madame Bertrand
- 90: Strongly contrasted with the gloom and sterility of Longwood
- 91: During our three years' voyage
- 92: A small and remarkable Hyaloea
- 93: And partly to the Eurysternus Dalm
- 94: Anoplognathidae were hitherto known to us from New Holland
- 95: The ten kinds of Heteromerides
- 96: Seven classes of Holothuria were examined
- 97: Attached to the shell of the Janthina
- 98: A second species of Phyllirhoe
- 99: A small bright yellow Pteroloma
- 100: Such as Zoophytes and Mollusca with their spawn
- 101: Closely resembles the Fissurella
- 102: Live several kinds of Xylophagi and some Cerambycides
- 103: Of the former we met with five kinds of Icterus
- 104: The remaining kinds of Psammodius
- 105: These baidars are moved very rapidly by oars