A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

being satisfied with his report, that there was not so much as fourteen feet, which the ship drew, when captain Vancouver had marked seventeen, I went to the nearest head, with a theodolite and signal flags, to direct his movements. No more, however, than thirteen feet could now be found upon the shallowest part of the bar; and, consequently, the idea of refitting in Oyster Harbour was abandoned. The boat which brought off Mr. Brown and his party in the evening, collected a good quantity of

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

plants collected by the naturalist, and for a variety of other purposes. The fresh water, procured by digging near the tents, was a little discoloured, but good; and it was sufficiently abundant for every purpose: its specific gravity was 1,003 at the temperature of 69 . Captain Vancouver has described the country in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound, and therefore a few observations upon it will suffice. The basis stone is granite, which frequently shows itself at the surface, in the

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

appearance are the same; their songs run in the same cadence; the manner of painting themselves is similar; their belts and fillets of hair are made in the same way, and worn in the same manner. The short, skin cloak, which is of kanguroo, and worn over the shoulders, leaving the rest of the body naked, is more in the manner of the wood natives living at the back of Port Jackson, than of those who inhabit the sea coast; and every thing we saw confirmed the supposition of captain Vancouver, that

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

mount bore N. 44 W., three leagues, and the coast, which from thence becomes sandy, was seen as far as N. 76 E. A small reef, one of two before laid down both by Vancouver and D'Entrecasteaux, was then observed three or four miles to seaward. It was important to get sight of this reef before dark, for we should otherwise have been at great uncertainty during the night, more especially as the surf upon it broke only at times. Friday 8. The wind being at south-by-east, we tacked and stood westward

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

persuaded that their appearance on the morning when the tents were struck, was a prelude to their coming down; and that had we remained a few days longer, a friendly communication would have ensued. The way was, however, prepared for the next ship which may enter this port, as it was to us in King George's Sound by captain Vancouver and the ship Elligood; to whose previous visits and peaceable conduct we were most probably indebted for our early intercourse with the inhabitants of that place. So far as

A774.02    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 2.   Text

patron of science, would hardly be less liberal than that of two preceding French governments to captain Cook in the American, and captain Vancouver in the [page] 35

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

, elle avoit t , dans ces derniers temps, visit e par VANCOUVER et surtout par DENTRECASTEAUX; mais ce dernier navigateur n'ayant pu lui-m me s'avancer au-del des ies St. Pierre et St. Fran ois, qui forment la limite orientale de la terre de Nuyts, et les Anglois n'ayant pas port vers le Sud leurs recherches plus loin que le port Western, il en r sultoit que toute la portion comprise entre ce dernier point et la terre de Nuyts toit encore inconnue au moment o nous arrivions sur ces rivages. p. 316

A845    Beagle Library:     Abel, Clarke. 1818. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.   Text

it from Bald Head, has a remarkable resemblance to coral both in form and closeness of texture, it may perhaps be considered a fair example of those substances considered coral by Vancouver, Flinders, and P ron. If this be admitted, it will follow that the reasoning is incorrect which is founded on their supposed submarine origin. * This statement requires to be somewhat modified; for occasionally a little oxide of iron was thrown down, arising from its mixture with the sand forming the crust

A597.6a    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 6, part 1.   Text   Image

this position is probably far too much to the west, although the parallel chains of the Rocky Mountains fill a space of more than 3 of longitude, in this parallel. The coast of the Pacific Ocean has been surveyed with the greatest care by Vancouver, Galiano, and Valdes; the relative longitudes leave little to desire, but the absolute longitudes remain in uncertainty more than half a degree. According to the learned researches of Mr. Oltmanns, the Nook of the Friends at the isle of Nootka is

A597.1    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. Into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol.s 1 and 2.   Text   Image

only one degree, this uncertainty, augmented by * Danske Vid. Selskabs Scrivter, 1802, p. 295. Journ. de Phys. t. lix, p. 287. M m. de P tersbourg, 1809, t. i, p. 248. See also Mollweide's Attempt to generalize the Theories of Euler and Mayer, in Gilbert's Annalen, t. xxix, p. 1 and 251. Voy. de Vancouver, t. i, p. 40 and 99. De Rossel, in the Voy. de d'Entrecasteaux, t. ii, p. 172. Cooke's second Voyage, vol. i, p. 24.[page] 11

A738.01    Beagle Library:     Aubuisson de Voisins, Jean Francois d'. 1819. Traité de géognosie: exposé des connaissances actuelles sur la constitution physique et minérale du globe terrestre. 2 vols. Strasbourg et Paris: F.G.Levrault. vol. 1.   Text

lande leur doit galement son existence: Vancouver rapporte que, vers le sud de ce pays, la terre est presque toute de corail: le sommet d'une des montagnes les plus lev es pr sente, d'apr s son rapport, un plateau dont le sol est de sable blanc; il en sort, dit-il, des branches de corail exactement pareilles celles qu'on voit la surface de la mer, et leur paisseur varie depuis une ligne jusqu' un ou deux pouces, et leur hauteur au-dessus du sol est de plus de trois pieds. Ailleurs, les

A731.01    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 1.   Text

England without attempting any thing. The following year he proceeded on the adventure towards the N. W. in a small vessel fitted out of London; wintered in Hudson's Bay, then made some slight examination of Chesterfield's Inlet, and again returned to a port in the Bay to winter. After these failures or disappointments, nothing else by him was attempted. 1791 to 1795. En. Two vessels, under the command of GEORGE VANCOUVER, were sent out to the west coast of North America, partly for receiving back

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

on the other summits of the Sandwich islands, present an interesting series. The short time which was allowed us on both visits, only permitted us to look with regret on the mountains of Owhyee, which appeared to us worth the object of a voyage on purpose to the Sandwich islands. We were even obliged to renounce the examination of them, though on the spot. To ascend Mouna Roa from Titatua requires a journey of at least two weeks (compare Vancouver), and at Titatua and Powarua at the very foot

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

thousand Indians: the number of deaths, in the last year, exceeded three hundred; it amounts already this year, (till October,) to two hundred and seventy, of which forty occurred during the last month. But the number of proselytes must exceed that of the apostates and the excess of deaths. Five missions were named to us, which have been founded in this province, since the time of Vancouver. On the other hand, several of the missions of the Dominicans in Old [page] 4

A794.01    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

visit to Mr. Whidbey, a friend of Captain Krusenstern. This well-informed and very amiable man had made the voyage with Vancouver as chief mate. I recollect with pleasure the days that I spent with him, because his company was equally agreeable and instructive. Mr. Whidbey is now constructing the Breakwater at Plymouth, a work that does him much credit. On the 8th of September I received permission of Admiral Manley to bring my instruments to Mount-Batton, a small, uninhabited spot, only fifty

A794.01    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

. Francisco was to be celebrated in the mission, and the priest invited us all to dinner. This afternoon, accompanied by all our gentlemen, I took a walk into the Presidio, where we were received at the gate by the commandant, Don Louis d'Arguello, and saluted with eight guns, and then conducted to his residence. I found the Presidio as described by Vancouver; the garrison consists of a company of cavalry, of which the commandant is chief, and [page] 27

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

Society of Jesus, who has lately resided there many years. Mannheim, 1773. And the Voyages of La Peyrouse, Vancouver, and Langsdorff. Near St. Barbara (34 north latitude) there arises from the coast a still burning volcano, the foot of which is washed by the sea; and in other places of the peninsula, there are proofs of a volcanic nature. [page] 3

A794.01    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

board a ship, but had been settled on the island for several years. He was a favourite with the king, and was in possession of a considerable portion of land; he acted as interpreter between us. Tamaahmaah desired him to say to me as follows: I learn that you are the commander of a ship of war, and are engaged in a voyage similar to those of Cook and Vancouver, and consequently do not engage in trade; it is therefore my intention not to carry on any with [page] 30

A794.01    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1.   Text

sailed so close by the island of Tahoorowa, that we saw a number of fires along the shore. On the 26th, near day-break, we were near the island of Ranai; but the wind died away now so much that we did not descry the S.W. point of the island of Woahoo till the afternoon, and were five miles distant from it in the evening. As I could not expect to reach the harbour to-day, I resolved to remain during the night in the neighbourhood of Wahititi Bay, with which Vancouver has made us sufficiently

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

for the natural history of this country; and many doubts have still to be cleared up.* With respect to the manners of the inhabitants, the obliging, incomparable hospitality of the superior classes, and the state of the colony, we can only refer to the accounts of La Peyrouse and Vancouver. We found only a change in the dress of the women, as described by the former, and of which a picture is found in his atlas. Since within these eight or ten years, it has given place to our European fashions

A794.03    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

ourselves saw the corpse of a woman floating round our ship, who had been killed, because she had entered the eating-house of her husband in a state of drunkenness. It is, however, said that the women, when they know they are unobserved, make no difficulty of transgressing the many prohibitions to which they are subject. The intercourse with the Europeans has not yet had any particular influence on * They are known by the voyages of Cook, Vancouver, Turnbull, Lisianskoy, c. Three houses necessarily

A558.2    Beagle Library:     Hall, Basil. 1824. Extracts from a journal, written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Constable. vol. 2.   Text   Image

clear of a small cluster of low rocks, which lie twenty-two miles to the N. N. W. of Cape Corrientes. We made them in latitude 20 43 north, and longitude 105 51 4 west. Vancouver places them in latitude 20 45 [page] 36

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

climate is favourable to these animals, and the country is now well stocked both with wild and tame cattle; so that ships, in addition to fresh vegetables, are supplied with excellent beef, and the resources of the natives incalculably augmented. Tamehameha's hospitality and attention to Vancouver induced the latter, before he left the Sandwich Islands, to permit his carpenters to assist Young, Davies, and Boyd, to build a schooner* for him, and to furnish the necessary iron work, a suit of

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

Maui. At present it is nearly deserted, not having more than two hundred inhabitants; among these is the celebrated John Young (an Englishman spoken of by Vancouver), who presides as chief over this part of the island, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Kairua, situated farther to the southward, is the present residence of Kuakini, alias John Adams, the governor of Hawaii. It was once celebrated for the largeness of its morai; this is now converted into a fort of several guns, and the

A545.1    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

the pine-tree and cockles.* In one of the boat excursions, a party of Indians was met with who had some halibut, but, though very high prices were offered, they could not be induced to part with any. This, as Captain Vancouver observes, was singular, and indicated a very scanty supply. At Nootka Sound, in the year 1794, fish had become very scarce and bore an exorbitant price; as, either from the badness of the season or from neglect, the inhabitants had experienced the greatest distress for