CHAP. I.
The Passage from Oteroah to New Zealand; Incidents which happened 274
on going ashore there, and while the Ship lay in Poverty Bay
CHAP. II.
A Description of Poverty Bay, and the Face of the adjacent 289
Country.—The Range from thence to Cape Turnagain, and back to
Tolaga; with some Account of the People and the Country, and
several Incidents that happened on that Part of the Coast
CHAP. III.
The Range from Tolaga to Mercury Bay, with an Account of many 314
Incidents that happened both on board and ashore.—A Description
of several Views exhibited by the Country, and of the Heppahs,
or fortified Villages of the Inhabitants
CHAP. IV.
The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands.—An Expedition 339
up the River Thames.—Some Account of the Indians who inhabit
its Banks, and the fine Timber that grows there.—Several
Interviews with the Natives on different Parts of the Coast,
and a Skirmish with them upon an Island
CHAP. V.
Range from the Bay of Islands round North Cape to Queen 360
Charlotte’s Sound; and a Description of that part of the Coast
CHAP. VI.
Transactions in Queen Charlotte’s Sound.—Passage through the 374
Strait which divides the two Islands, and back to Cape
Turnagain.—Horrid Custom of the Inhabitants.—Remarkable Melody
of Birds.—A Visit to a Heppah, and many other Particulars
DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING
THE PLATES.
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VOL. I.
Portrait _to face the Title_.
Map of the World _Page_ 1
Island of Otaheite 84
Harbour of Oopoa 254
A fortified Town at Tolaga 331
A natural Arch, or perforated Rock 331
Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand 332
VOL. II.
Canoe of New Zealand _to face the Title_.
VOL. III.
Landing at Middleburgh, Friendly Isles _to face the Title_.
Boats of the Friendly Isles 222
Resolution Bay, in the Marquesas 299
The Fleet of Otaheite at Opárre 318
VOL. IV.
A View in the Island of Rotterdam _to face the Title_.
View in the Island of New Caledonia 98
Christmas Sound Terra del Fuego 178
VOL. V.
Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen’s Land _to face the Title_.
View at Anamooka 301
VOL. VI.
Canoe of the Sandwich Islands _to face the Title_.
A Morai, at Otaheite 31
View at Huaheine 85
A Morai in Atooi 185
Inland View in Atooi 206
Natives of Oonolashka 466
VOL. VII.
Summer and Winter Habitations at Kamtschatka _to face the Title_.
Karakakooa, Owyhee 3
Town and Harbour of St. Peter, Kamtschatka 168
[Illustration:
THE WORLD,
on
_MERCATOR’S PROJECTION_,
_Shewing_ the Courses _of_
CAPTAIN COOK’S THREE VOYAGES.
]
AN
ACCOUNT
OF A
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,
IN THE YEARS 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771.
BY
LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK,
COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY’S BARK THE ENDEAVOUR.
Drawn up from his Journal,
And from the Papers of Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart
BY
DR. HAWKESWORTH.
INTRODUCTION
TO
THE FIRST VOYAGE.
WITH Lieutenant Cook, in this voyage, embarked Joseph Banks, Esquire, a
gentleman possessed of considerable landed property in Lincolnshire. He
received the education of a scholar rather to qualify him for the
enjoyments than the labours of life; yet an ardent desire to know more
of Nature than could be learnt from books determined him, at a very
early age, to forego what are generally thought to be the principal
advantages of a liberal fortune, and to apply his revenue not in
procuring the pleasures of leisure and ease, but in the pursuit of his
favourite study, through a series of fatigue and danger, which, in such
circumstances, have very seldom been voluntarily incurred, except to
gratify the restless and insatiable desires of avarice or ambition.
Upon his leaving the university of Oxford, in the year 1763, he crossed
the Atlantic, and visited the coasts of Newfoundland and Labradore. The
danger, difficulty, and inconvenience that attend long voyages are very
different in idea and experience; Mr. Banks, however, returned,
undiscouraged, from his first expedition; and when he found that the
Endeavour was equipping for a voyage to the South Seas, in order to
observe the Transit of Venus, and afterwards attempt farther
discoveries, he determined to embark in the expedition, that he might
enrich his native country with a tribute of knowledge from those which
have been hitherto unknown, and not without hope of leaving among the
rude and uncultivated nations that he might discover, something that
would render life of more value, and enrich them, perhaps, in a certain
degree, with the knowledge, or at least with the productions, of Europe.
As he was determined to spare no expense in the execution of his plan,
he engaged Dr. Solander to accompany him in the voyage. This Gentleman,
by birth a Swede, was educated under the celebrated Linnæus, from whom
he brought letters of recommendation into England, and his merit being
soon known, he obtained an appointment in the British Museum, a public
institution, which was then just established; such a companion Mr. Banks
considered as an acquisition of no small importance, and, to his great
satisfaction, the event abundantly proved that he was not mistaken. He
also took with him two draftsmen, one to delineate views and figures,
the other to paint such subjects of natural history as might offer;
together with a secretary and four servants, two of whom were negroes.
Mr. Banks kept an accurate and circumstantial journal of the voyage,
and, soon after I had received that of Captain Cook from the Admiralty,
was so obliging as to put it into my hands, with permission to take out
of it whatever I thought would improve or embellish the narrative. This
was an offer of which I gladly and thankfully accepted: I knew the
advantage would be great, for few philosophers have furnished materials
for accounts of voyages undertaken to discover new countries. The
adventurers in such expeditions have generally looked only upon the
great outline of Nature, without attending to the variety of shades
within, which give life and beauty to the piece.
The papers of Captain Cook contained a very particular account of all
the nautical incidents of the voyage, and a very minute description of
the figure and extent of the countries he had visited, with the bearings
of the headlands and bays that diversify the coasts, the situation of
the harbours in which shipping may obtain refreshments, with the depth
of water wherever there were soundings; the latitudes, longitudes,
variation of the needle, and such other particulars as lay in his
department; and abundantly showed him to be an excellent officer, and
skilful navigator. But in the papers which were communicated to me by
Mr. Banks, I found a great variety of incidents which had not come under
the notice of Captain Cook, with descriptions of countries and people,
their productions, manners, customs, religion, policy, and language,
much more full and particular than were expected from a Gentleman whose
station and office naturally turned his principal attention to other
objects; for these particulars, therefore, besides many practical
observations, the Public is indebted to Mr. Banks. To Mr. Banks also the
Public is indebted for the designs of the engravings which illustrate
and adorn the account of this voyage, all of them, except the maps,
charts, and views of the coasts as they appear at sea, being copied from
his valuable drawings, and some of them from such as were made for the
use of the artists at his expense.
As the materials furnished by Mr. Banks were so interesting and copious,
there arose an objection against writing an account of this voyage in
the person of the Commander, which could have no place with respect to
the others; the descriptions and observations of Mr. Banks would be
absorbed without any distinction, in a general narrative given under
another name: but this objection he generously over-ruled, and it,
therefore, became necessary to give some account of the obligations
which he has laid upon the Public and myself in this place. It is,
indeed, fortunate for mankind, when wealth and science, and a strong
inclination to exert the powers of both for purposes of public benefit,
unite in the same person; and I cannot but congratulate my country upon
the prospect of further pleasure and advantage from the same Gentleman,
to whom we are indebted for so considerable a part of this narrative.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF A
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,
IN 1768, 1769, 1770, AND 1771.