Range from the Bay of Islands round North Cape to Queen 360 Charlotte’s Sound; and a Description of that part of the Coast
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
Canoe of New Zealand _to face the Title_.
Landing at Middleburgh, Friendly Isles _to face the Title_.
A View in the Island of Rotterdam _to face the Title_.
Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen’s Land _to face the Title_.
Canoe of the Sandwich Islands _to face the Title_.
Summer and Winter Habitations at Kamtschatka _to face the Title_.
Town and Harbour of St. Peter, Kamtschatka 168
THE WORLD, on _MERCATOR’S PROJECTION_, _Shewing_ the Courses _of_ CAPTAIN COOK’S THREE VOYAGES. ]
COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY’S BARK THE ENDEAVOUR.
Drawn up from his Journal, And from the Papers of Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart
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.