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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. XIII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII.

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.

CHAPTER IV.

SECT. XVII.

A particular Description of the Island of Otaheite; its Produce andInhabitants; their Dress, Habitation, Food, Domestic Life andAmusements.

SECTION XVIII.

Of the Manufactures, Boats, and Navigation of Otaheite.

SECTION XIX.

Of the Division of Time at Otaheite; Numeration, Computation ofDistance, Language, Diseases, Disposal of the Dead, Religion, War,Weapons, and Government; with some general Observations for the Use offuture Navigators.

SECTION XX.

Description of the several Islands in the Neighbourhood of Otaheite,with various Incidents; a Dramatic Entertainment; and many Particularsrelative to the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants.

SECTION XXI.

The Passage from Oteroah to New Zealand; Incidents which happened ingoing ashore there, and while the Ship lay in Poverty Bay.

SECTION XXII.

A Description of Poverty Bay, and the Face of the adjacent Country. TheRange from thence to Cape Turnagain, and back to Tolaga, with someAccount of the People and the Country and several Incidents thathappened on that Part of the Coast.

SECTION XXIII.

The Range from Tolaga to Mercury Bay, with an Account of many Incidentsthat happened both on board and ashore: A Description of several Viewsexhibited by the Country, and of the Hippahs, or fortified Villages ofthe Inhabitants.

SECTION XXIV.

The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands: An Expedition up theRiver Thames: Some Account of the Indians who inhabit its Banks, and thefine Timber that grows there: Several Interviews with the Natives ondifferent Parts of the Coast, and a Skirmish with them upon an Island.

SECTION XXV.

Range from the Bay of Islands round North Cape to Queen Charlotte'sIsland; and a Description of that Part of the Coast.

SECTION XXVI.

Transactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound; Passage through the Streightwhich divides the two Islands, and back to Cape Turnagain: Horrid Customof the Inhabitants: Remarkable Melody of Birds: A Visit to a Hippah, andmany other Particulars.

SECTION XXVII.

Range from Cape Turnagain along the eastern Coast of Poenammoo, roundCape South, and back to the Entrance of Cook's Streight, which completedthe Circumnavigation of the Country; with a Description of the Coast,and of Admiralty Bay: The Departure from New Zealand, and variousParticulars.

SECTION XXVIII.

The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay, on the East Coast of

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