Chapter III: Part THE SECOND: Pirogues of the Admiralty Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

"Picking up the enemies' weapons" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

"A lighted brand was also presented to them" . . . . . . . . . . . 225

"The only one who had escaped" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

"A man's skull was found" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Portrait of La Perouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Costumes of the inhabitants of Conception . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Inhabitants of Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Typical natives of the Port des Francais . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Shipwreck of French boats outside the Port des Francais . . . . . 251

"An Indian with a stag's head over his own" . . . . . . . . . . . 253

He traced the coast of Tartary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Typical Orotchys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Portrait of D'Entrecasteaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

"They came upon four natives" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Fete in honour of D'Entrecasteaux at the Friendly Islands . . . . 285

Typical native of New Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Natives of New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

View of the Island of Bouron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Native hut in Endracht Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

King of the Island of Timor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

The Swan River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

"A sail was seen on the horizon" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

"The sick were carried on shore" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

View of Sydney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Water-carrier at Timor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

"He received a cordial welcome" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

The Baobab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Portrait of Mungo Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Natives of Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

A Hottentot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

A Bosjeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

"Till Master Rees had given his verdict" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

A Kaffir woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Portrait of James Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

"I found the monarch seated on his throne" . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Chinese magic-lantern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

The Emperor of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

The great wall of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Chinese Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

"The famous bird Leutze" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Port Monterey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Mackenzie's first view of the North Pacific Ocean . . . . . . . . 389

Portrait of Condamine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Celebrated Narrows of Manseriche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Omagua Indians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Portrait of Alex. de Humboldt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Gigantic vegetation on the banks of the Temi . . . . . . . . . . . 400

MAPS.

Map of France, corrected by order of the King, in accordance with
the instructions of the Members of the Academy of Sciences . . . 10

Map of the Eastern Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Straits of Magellan, after Bougainville . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Map of Queen Charlotte Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Louisiade Archipelago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Map of Australia, after Perron's atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Map of the east coast of New Holland, after Cook . . . . . . . . . 126

Captain Cook's chart of Otaheite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Itinerary of the principal voyagers during the 18th century, after
Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Map of Surville's discoveries, after Fleurieu . . . . . . . . . . 212

Island discovered by M. Marion du Fresnes in 1772, called Prince
Edward's Island by Cook in 1776 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Map of the journey of La Perouse, after the atlas published by
General Millet-Mureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Map of the coast of Asia, after the map of La Perouse's voyage . . 258

Map of part of North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Map of part of Western Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Map of the Empire of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Map of North-West America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Map of the two Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Itinerary of Humboldt's route in equinoctial America . . . . . . . 399

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FIRST PART.

CHAPTER I.

I.
ASTRONOMERS AND CARTOGRAPHERS.
PAGE
Cassini, Picard, and La Hire--The Meridian line and the map of
France--G. Delisle and D'Anville--The shape of the earth--
Maupertuis in Lapland--Condamine at the Equator . . . . . . . . 3

II. VOYAGES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Expedition of Wood Rogers--Adventures of Alexander Selkirk--
Galapagos Island--Puerto Seguro--Return to England--Expedition
of George Anson--Staten Island--Juan Fernandez--Tinian--Macao--
Taking of the vessel--Canton river--Results of the Cruise . . . 13