Chapter XVII: Part THE FIRST

Hoisting the signals for triangulation Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Selkirk falling over the precipice with his prey "I plunged my pike into his breast" Fight between the Centurion and a Spanish galleon "The council chose the latter alternative" "Most of them on horseback" "One of them tore the carrion with his teeth" "They made a thousand grimaces" The natives waving palm-leaves as a sign of welcome Head-dresses of natives of Otahiti "Pursued by the arrows of the natives" A struggle between the Swallow and a Malay prah Portrait of Bougainville "We made them sing" Lancers' Island Pirogue of the Marquesas Islands Mdlle. Barré's adventure Captain James Cook "They were pursued so closely" Otahitian flute-player A Fa-toka, New Zealand Interior of a morai in Hawaii Tatooed head of a New Zealander An I-pah A New Zealand family "They were kangaroos" Otahitian fleet off Oparee "Three Indians emerged from the wood" Among the icebergs New Zealand war canoe New Zealand utensils and weapons "Who passed his days in being fed by his wives" O-Too, King of Otaheite Monuments in Easter Island Natives of Easter Island Natives of the Marquesas Typical natives of the Sandwich Islands "The natives had sufficient confidence" "With the roof of considerable height" View of Christmas Sound Kerguelen Islands Fête in Cook's honour at Tonga Human sacrifice at Otahiti Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus Cook's reception by the natives Prince William's Sound "They gave him a little pig"