A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

by James Cook

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Author: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Language: English
LoC Class: G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Subject: Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
Category: Text
eBook-No.: 15869
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15869
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Copyright: Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1.HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND ADVENTURE, IN THE YEARS 1772, 3, 4, AND 5. WRITTEN BY JAMES COOK, COMMANDER OF THE RESOLUTION. IN WHICH IS INCLUDED CAPTAIN FURNEAUX'S NARRATIVE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS IN THE ADVENTURE DURING THE SEPARATION OF THE SHIPS. IN TWO VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND CHARTS, AND A VARIETY OF PORTRAITS OF PERSONS AND VIEWS AND PLACES, DRAWN DURING THE VOYAGE BY MR. HODGES, AND ENGRAVED BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS. — BOOK III. From Ulietea to New Zealand. — DIRECTIONS FOR THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE VOCABULARY. — A TABLE EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW, SPECIMENS OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE SOUTH-SEA, FROM EASTER ISLAND, WESTWARD TO NEW CALEDONIA, AS OBSERVED IN THE VOYAGE. — A DISCOURSE UPON SOME LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MEANS FOR PRESERVING THE HEALTH OF MARINERS. — GENTLEMEN, — END OF VOLUME II.

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