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. IN WHICH IS INCLUDED CAPTAIN FURNEAUX'S NARRATIVE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS IN THE ADVENTURE DURING THE SEPARATION OF THE SHIPS. IN TWO VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND CHARTS, AND A VARIETY OF PORTRAITS OF PERSONS AND VIEWS AND PLACES, DRAWN DURING THE VOYAGE BY MR. HODGES, AND ENGRAVED BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS.
VOLUME I
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LONDON: PRINTED FOR W STRAHAN AND T CADELL IN THE STRAND. MDCCLXXVII (1777)
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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
BOOK I. From our departure from England to leaving the Society Isles the first time.
CHAPTER I. Passage from Deptford to the Cape of Good Hope, with an Account of several Incidents that happened by the Way, and Transactions there.
CHAPTER II. Departure from the Cape of Good Hope, in search of a Southern Continent.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER IV. Transactions in Dusky Bay, with an Account of several Interviews with the Inhabitants.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER VI. Passage from Dusky Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound, with an Account of some Water Spouts, and of our joining the Adventure.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER VIII. Transactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound, with some Remarks on the Inhabitants.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER XI. An Account of several Visits to and from Otoo; of Goats being left on the Island; and many other Particulars which happened while the Ships lay in Matavai Bay.
CHAPTER XII. An Account of the Reception we met with at Huaheine, with the Incidents that happened while the Ships lay there; and of Omai, one of the Natives, coming away in the Adventure,
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the Worl
- 2: Passage from Ulietea to the Friendly Islands
- 3: After Magalhaens had shewed them the way
- 4: This same Quiros was the first sent out
- 5: When Captain Tasman sailed from Batavia
- 6: Under the command of Admiral Roggewein
- 7: Afterwards fell in with Maitea
- 8: And the other to Otaheite in 1775
- 9: Others preferred large good sailing frigates
- 10: With perseverance and resolution in their commanders
- 11: And sugar in lieu of so much oil
- 12: Was inspissated by evaporation
- 13: To make astronomical observations
- 14: Of Port Sandwich in Mallicollo
- 15: 1772 AprilI sailed from Deptford
- 16: And endeavour to fall in with Cape Circumcision
- 17: And on the evening of the 29th anchored in Funchiale Road
- 18: Which strangers may mistake for Port Praya
- 19: And when immerged in the surface of the sea
- 20: 1772 OctoberWith these winds we advanced but slowly
- 21: Of longitude more east than our reckoning
- 22: Soon after arrived at the Mauritius
- 23: The ships were caulked and painted
- 24: I directed my course for Cape Circumcision
- 25: Penguins began to make their appearance
- 26: So that they were all hung with icicles
- 27: The wind veering more to the north
- 28: Which were of the peterel tribe
- 29: Some of the peterels were of the blue sort
- 30: But saw upon it eighty six penguins
- 31: The wind had now veered to the west
- 32: Were the only albatrosses that had not now forsaken us
- 33: The mean result of which gave 39 deg
- 34: Which we named Antarctic peterels
- 35: Called by us in my former voyage Port Egmont Hen
- 36: Attended with thick hazy weather
- 37: And soon after spoke with Captain Furneaux
- 38: We frequently saw penguins and divers
- 39: This morning we saw one penguin
- 40: Being nearly in the latitude and longitude just mentioned
- 41: Accompanied with snow and sleet
- 42: Veering from the south to the west
- 43: Having frequent showers of snow and sleet
- 44: Being in the latitude of 58 deg
- 45: Being in the latitude of 59 deg
- 46: I sent Lieutenant Pickersgill over to the S
- 47: Now I have mentioned the inspissated juice of wort
- 48: Accompanied by the two Mr Forsters
- 49: Accompanied by Mr Forster and Mr Hodges
- 50: This cascade is at the east point of a cove
- 51: After restoring the sportsmen to their boat
- 52: Accompanied by Mr Forster and Mr Hodges
- 53: I gave to each a hatchet and a knife
- 54: Accompanied by Mr Pickersgill and the two Mr Forsters
- 55: And moored with a hawser to the shore
- 56: As well as the one in Pickersgill Harbour
- 57: A prospect more rude and craggy is rarely to be met with
- 58: The poy bird is less than the wattle bird
- 59: According to the strength of the decoction
- 60: That its longitude was 106 deg
- 61: During the time these spouts lasted
- 62: 1773 FebruaryOn the 7th of February
- 63: Which Tasman has not mentioned
- 64: We anchored in seven fathoms water
- 65: Which the surgeon called gum lac
- 66: We made land again in about 39 deg
- 67: We found no ground at seventy fathoms
- 68: We struck our tents on the Motuara
- 69: And who also enquired for Tupia
- 70: Till his shirt was washed and dried
- 71: We discovered four or five canoes
- 72: They would have equally enquired of them for Tupia
- 73: Cape Palliser at this time bore E
- 74: The longitude was observed as follows
- 75: Which gave the longitude 135 deg
- 76: And only one of them attacked with the scurvy
- 77: In my passage to New Zealand in 1769
- 78: Lies in the latitude of 17 deg
- 79: Arrival of the Ships at Otaheite
- 80: That they belonged to Waheatoun the Earee de hi
- 81: I then sent a boat to take up the canoe
- 82: I was informed that Waheatoua was come into the neighourhood
- 83: Whereas Pretane is in every child's mouth
- 84: Toutaha Tiyo no Toutee matty Toutaha Toutaha
- 85: Saying something or other about hogs
- 86: And was herself subject to the Earee
- 87: Lieutenant Pickersgill sailed with the cutter
- 88: Taking with us the man who came back with Mr Sparrman
- 89: I went to pay my farewell visit to Oree
- 90: Among whom Omai is to be ranked
- 91: Ulietea With an Account of what happened there
- 92: Oreo ordered an heava to be acted for our entertainment
- 93: Observed the chief to divide the entrails
- 94: Accordingly we embarked in our boat
- 95: De Bougainville came from Pretane
- 96: Either while they were at Otaheite
- 97: If they sacrificed to the Eatua
- 98: The liquor which they make from the plant called Ava ava
- 99: Between Point Venus and Oaiti piha
- 100: We made the island of Middleburg
- 101: I went on shore with Captain Furneaux and Mr Forster
- 102: To this creek we were conducted by my friend Attago
- 103: My friend Attago immediately got up
- 104: Which was first directed to the Afiatouca
- 105: Attago soon found out the thief
- 106: And the bearers said it was a present from the Areeke
- 107: Attago conducted us to another circle
- 108: Together with the neighbouring one of Middleburg
- 109: Nor was this the time for roots and shaddocks
- 110: And are sometimes navigated with sails
- 111: The custom of tattowing or puncturing the skin prevails
- 112: Whereas those of Otaheite have only two
- 113: The buildings called Afiatoucas
- 114: There were several people on Portland
- 115: Cape Turnagain at this time bore about N
- 116: And stretched over for Cape Palliser
- 117: We discovered on the east side of Cape Teerawhitte
- 118: Particularly an old man named Goubiah
- 119: The day we anchored in the Cove
- 120: As also the old boar and sow given them by Captain Furneaux
- 121: They told our people they had stolen them
- 122: One of the arguments they made use of to Tupia
- 123: And stood over for Cape Teerawhitte
- 124: On the east side of Cape Teerawhitte
- 125: We also saw an antarctic peterel
- 126: And a few antarctic peterels on the wing
- 127: As well as the peterels above mentioned
- 128: The wind having veered more to the E
- 129: By the vast number of blue peterels
- 130: That our longitude can never be erroneous
- 131: Within the antartic polar circle
- 132: Were never seen in the Greenland seas
- 133: And attended with snow and sleet
- 134: Quiros speaks of this land as being large
- 135: De Bougainville seems to have run down under that meridian
- 136: 1774 MarchAt eight o'clock in the morning
- 137: Before the sandy beach above mentioned
- 138: It being interspersed with plantations of potatoes
- 139: After having quenched their thirst
- 140: They found another small shrub
- 141: Side must be with easterly winds
- 142: The women are but little punctured
- 143: Like the Patoo patoo of New Zealand
- 144: But if the stones are factitious
- 145: Intending to touch at the Marquesas
- 146: For the boat had no sooner left the kedge anchor
- 147: They should take away the buoy
- 148: With three or four little pigs
- 149: These are disjoined by deep narrow vallies
- 150: Their clothing is the same as at Otaheite
- 151: They are built after the same manner as at Otaheite
- 152: Or seen in the Passage from the Marquesas to Otaheite
- 153: Which is called by the inhabitants Ti oo kea
- 154: We made the high land of Otaheite on the 21st
- 155: Which did not exceed the plains of Matavai and Oparree
- 156: And that of the former Tiyo no Towha
- 157: We had not been long gone from Oparree
- 158: I received a present from Towha
- 159: As soon as Towha had ended his speech
- 160: I being at this time on shore with Tarevatoo
- 161: I went ashore with Tee and Tarevatoo
- 162: The other three canoes belonged to Maritata
- 163: Or any other belonging to Tiarabou
- 164: They knew they should be obliged to make restitution
- 165: Oedidee was not yet come back from Attahourou
- 166: And were come to Oparree to be reviewed before the king
- 167: And desired the pahie might be called Britannia
- 168: To assist him in reducing to obedience the chief of Eimea
- 169: The fleet of Tiarabou is not included in this account
- 170: For I never heard of one of these being an Eareeoy
- 171: Amongst whom was old Oree the chief
- 172: But I learnt from Oedidee that he came soon after
- 173: As also the canoes and the Whenooa
- 174: If their intentions were what Oedidee had suggested
- 175: A Report of two ships being at Huaheine
- 176: Which they called Marai no te Oore
- 177: For an estate which Oedidee called his
- 178: As also bread fruit and plantains
- 179: A person in the house told us they were Eatua no te Toutou
- 180: When Tootaha swayed the sceptre
- 181: And his own Whenooa or district