Chapter II: Part THE FIRST

PAGE Hoisting the signals for triangulation . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Selkirk falling over the precipice with his prey . . . . . . . . . 15

"I plunged my pike into his breast" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Fight between the _Centurion_ and a Spanish galleon . . . . . . . 22

"The council chose the latter alternative" . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

"Most of them on horseback" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

"One of them tore the carrion with his teeth" . . . . . . . . . . 37

"They made a thousand grimaces" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

The natives waving palm-leaves as a sign of welcome . . . . . . . 52

Head-dresses of natives of Otahiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

"Pursued by the arrows of the natives" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

A struggle between the _Swallow_ and a Malay prah . . . . . . . . 68

Portrait of Bougainville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

"We made them sing" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Lancers' Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Pirogue of the Marquesas Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Mdlle. Barre's adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Captain James Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

"They were pursued so closely" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Otahitian flute-player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

A Fa-toka, New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Interior of a morai in Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Tatooed head of a New Zealander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

An I-pah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

A New Zealand family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

"They were kangaroos" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Otahitian fleet off Oparee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

"Three Indians emerged from the wood" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Among the icebergs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

New Zealand war canoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

New Zealand utensils and weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

"Who passed his days in being fed by his wives" . . . . . . . . . 148

O-Too, King of Otaheite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Monuments in Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Natives of Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Natives of the Marquesas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Typical natives of the Sandwich Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

"The natives had sufficient confidence" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

"With the roof of considerable height" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

View of Christmas Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Kerguelen Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Fete in Cook's honour at Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Human sacrifice at Otahiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus . . . 190

Cook's reception by the natives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Prince William's Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

"They gave him a little pig" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198