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An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators, vol. 1 of 4

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In Vol. I.

Map of Mexico and South America to be placed at the beginning.

Horn Island ──── (Introduction) to face page xxxviii

Head of Sir Francis Drake 1

Drake going off to sea on a raft 41

Beheading of Capt. Doughty 88

Drake engaging the Cacafuego, a rich Spanish ship 113

Drake conveying away the Spanish Judges and criminal savages 118

Drake receiving the Crown from the Hioh of New Albion 123

Cavendish plundering and burning Paita 191

The King of Java’s Wives destroying themselves 226

Cavendish’s crew in great distress, &c. 250

Capt. Davis’s men taken off a rock 304

Dampier’s men seizing oxen, mules, &c. at a farm-house 340

Capt. Swan entertained by Rajah Laut 370

Dampier and his companions overtaken by a storm 412

Cowley and his men taking in provisions at Juan Fernandez 440

In Vol. II.

Alexander Selkirk making his cats and kids dance 24

Miscellaneous Plate of fish, trees, &c. 48

Mr. Hatley and crew whipped 89

Distressed situation of the Success 120

Sea-lion, sea-lioness, and seals 181

Californian Woman habited in a deer’s skin 229

Californian Man returned from fishing, and another in his bark-log 230

Lawn where Commodore Anson pitched his tent at Juan Fernandez 289

In Vol. III.

The three Charts of the tracks of the Dolphin, Tamar, Swallow, Endeavour, and M. Bougainville, to be accurately joined, and placed at the beginning

Comm. Byron conversing with a Patagonian woman to face page 11

The wolf-fox of Falkland’s Islands 18

Straits of Magellan 22

The Queen of Otaheite taking leave of Capt. Wallis 99

View of a town in the island of Terra del Fuego 196

Musical youth in the new-discovered islands 218

Mr. Banks receiving a visit from the King of the D. of York’s Island 238

A Morai, or burial-place 257

A woman and a boy of the new-discovered islands 270

A Priest of the new-discovered islands in the habit of his order 287

Representation of a dance in the island of Ulietea 299

View of a perforated rock in Tolaga-bay 326

Head of a New Zealand Chief curiously tattooed 327

View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand 371

War-canoe, and a branch of the bread fruit tree 396

New Zealand warrior in the dress of his country 398

Warriors of Otaheite and New Zealand defying their enemies 399

In Vol. IV.

The hooded serpent, and an ape of Java 85

M. Bougainville crossing St. Lucia river in a canoe drawn by horses 126

Bougainville hoisting the French colours in the straits of Magellan 194

Prospective view of the great cascade in Cascade-bay 201

In the Voyage to the North Pole.

Map of the Icy Sea ──── (Introduction) i.

Chart of Spitzbergen, or New Greenland 33

View of the Whale Fishery 40

Sr. Francis Drake. J. June Sculp.

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