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GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII.

PART III.

General Voyages and Travels of Discovery, &c.

BOOK I.

An Account of the Voyages undertaken by order of his Majesty,George III, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere; andsuccessively performed, by Commodore Byron, Captains Wallis andCarteret, and Lieutenant Cook.

General Introduction.

CHAPTER I.

An Account of Commodore Byron's Voyage, in 1764, 5, and 6 in HisMajesty's ship the Dolphin.

SECTION I. The Passage from the Downs to Rio de Janeiro.

SECTION II. Passage from Rio de Janeiro to Port Desire; with someDescription of that Place.

SECTION III. Course from Port Desire, in search of Pepy's Island, andafterwards to the Coast of Patagonia, with a Description of theInhabitants.

SECTION IV. Passage up the Streight of Magellan, to Port Famine; with someAccount of that Harbour, and the adjacent Coast.

SECTION V. The Course back from Port Famine to Falkland's Islands, withsome Account of the Country.

SECTION VI. The Passage through the Strait of Magellan as far as CapeMonday, with a Description of several Bays and Harbours, formed bythe Coast on each Side.

SECTION VII. The Passage from Cape Monday, in the Strait of Magellan, intothe South Seas; with some general Remarks on the Navigation of thatStrait.

SECTION VIII. The Run from the Western Entrance of the Strait ofMagellan to the Islands of Disappointment.

SECTION IX. The Discovery of King George's Islands, with a Description ofthem, and an Account of several Incidents that happened there.

SECTION X. The Run from King George's Islands to the Islands of Saypan,Tinian, and Aguigan; with an Account of several Islands that werediscovered in that Track.

SECTION XI. The Arrival of the Dolphin and Tamar at Tinian, a Descriptionof the present Condition of that Island, and an Account of theTransactions there.

SECTION XII. The Run from Tinian to Pulo Timoan, with some Account of thatIsland, its Inhabitants and Productions, and thence to Batavia.

SECTION XIII. Transactions at Batavia, and Departure from that Place.

SECTION XIV. The Passage from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope, and fromthence to England.

CHAPTER II.

An Account of Captain Wallis's Voyage in1766, 7, and 8, in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin.

SECTION I. The Passage to the Coast of Patagonia, with some Accountof the Natives.

SECTION II. The Passage through the Strait of Magellan, with some furtherAccount of the Patagonian's, and a Description of the Coast on eachSide, and its Inhabitants.

SECTION III. A particular Account of the Places in which we anchoredduring our Passage through the Strait, and of the Shoals and Rocksthat lie near them.

SECTION IV. The Passage from the Strait of Magellan, to King Geor

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