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39%	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 we may well imagine that these chiefs will often live in plenty, while their vassals and servants are pinched with want. From the late accounts of Otaheite in the Missionary Voyage, it would appear, that the depopulating causes above enumerated have operated with most extraordinary force since Captain Cook's last visit. A rapid succession of destructive wars, during a part of that interval, is taken notice of in the intermediate visit of Captain Vancouver;* and from the small proportion of
39%	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 These observations refer, of course, chiefly to the second part of the following work, which contains the account of the Blonde's voyage. In the first part, the Editor has consulted the voyages of Cook, Vancouver, Dickson and Portlock, Turnbull, and several other English navigators, besides the French and Russian voyages. Much valuable information was also received verbally from the missionaries, besides that contained in Mr. Ellis's excellent account of Hawaii; and with respect to the visit
39%	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 animal food, more delicate than they had hitherto known. Captain Vancouver himself was one of the greatest benefactors to the Islands. Although he constantly refused to furnish the chiefs with any fire-arms or ammunition, he gave them a breed of cattle and of sheep, which Tamehameha declared to be tabu, or sacred, for ten years. The * See page 28. [page] 3
39%	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 the ships of four nations, English, Americans, French, Russians, touched; and many of them treated the inhabitants most cruelly; that the English were their oldest friends; that Captain Cook had made known to them the greatness of the world, and they would trust in the protection of the English against all other powers. See Vancouver for a detailed account of this singular event, and a copy of the engraved plate. [page] 3
39%	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 against Tamehameha; but in the same year he was killed, and the Island subdued. The king, accompanied by * Turnbull acknowledgesy the wanton and ill-judged cruelties which, under the circumstance of the slightest quarrel with these natives, are but too commonly practised. It was to revenge some barbarous insults that the two officers of one of Vancouver's vessels were killed by the people of Maui. See Vancouver. [page] 3
39%	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 become wild by the operation of the ten years' tabu, imposed after Captain Vancouver landed the parent stock, and had taught the arts of the dairy; a considerable profit was also derived from salting beef for the ships; and perhaps no one reign of thirty years, in any country, had ever witnessed so great a change in the condition of the people as did that of Tamehameha in the Sandwich Islands. In the early part of his reign, feeling that the great and separate power of the priests was
39%	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 I am full of joy. * Mr. Young is the son of that Young who was originally a forced settler in Hawaii, and whose good conduct every navigator, from Vancouver to Lord Byron, has had occasion to be satisfied with. The young man, though partaking of the low manners of the origin of his father and the partially savage nature of the mother, was yet a useful servant and faithful interpreter. L [page] 7
39%	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 , though a shipwrecked mariner, was marched through the country, whose sovereign was at peace with our own, as a state prisoner. We are going thither openly, secure of finding a friendly port filled chiefly with the vessels of our countrymen, and where the name of an Englishman is a passport to all the protection the state has to afford. On approaching the coast of Chile, the bare appearance and dark red colour of the cliffs give such an idea of sterility, that, as Vancouver has remarked, it is
39%	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 us, more easily in the Sandwich tongue. As soon as he had ended, refreshments were placed for us on a table; these consisted of grapes, melons, fresh butter, biscuits, bananas, cocoa-nuts, wines, and liqueurs. The three first articles the Islanders owe to the industry of Marini, an old Spaniard, who was the first to bring in and tame some of the cattle that Vancouver first introduced into Hawaii, and began to show the natives the various uses of milk. He has also cultivated the vine so
39%	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 , governor of Owhyhee, and brother of Kahumanu, came in his own schooner, the Boston, bringing with him Mr. Young, whose history is told by Vancouver, and whose constant attachment to his native country, though for twenty-four years absent from it, has doubtless been the cause of the great attachment of the Sandwich Island government to the English. R 2 [page] 12
39%	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 his flight, he prevailed on the captain to fire on the natives, and thus was the cause of the death of the officers of the D dalus. Three different men were executed as their murderers, by the captains of different ships, in a manner so arbitrary, * See Vancouver. [page] 14
39%	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 king he proposed, to adopt as the law, excepting in such cases as when a chief or landholder should infringe the laws; then his lands should be forfeited, and himself tabooed. Several chiefs at once exclaimed, All the laws of the great Tamehameha were good; let us have the same. Boki next addressed the council. He said, that after the death of Riho Riho, he had made application to King George for the benefit of the country, on the grounds of the compact between Captain Vancouver* and
39%	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 Weakeah (now Byron) Bay. This beautiful and safe anchorage never having been entered before by a man-of-war, Kahumanu gave orders that henceforth it should be known only by the name of Byron Bay, in compliment to our commander: it lies in the district of Hido; hence it is sometimes called Hido Bay. Captain Vancouver had been off the bay at his last visit to the Islands, in January 1794, but had conceived it unsafe to enter; in fact, the appearance from without is not inviting. A reef of lava runs
39%	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 completely at rest, as well as Mouna Worarai, the third mountain of the Island, on whose summit is the great extinguished crater, of which a view is given by Vancouver; Mouna Roa on the contrary is full of cracks, and hillocks, and craters, all actively burning: it has its springs, hot and cold, its sulphur and pumice; so that it is no wonder the [page] 17
35%	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 obliged to submit to a fixed allowance, and the chiefs brought every day to our countrymen the stated meal of seven dried herrings' heads. Mr. Meares says that the perusal of this gentleman's journal would, shock any mind tinctured with humanity. Captain Vancouver mentions some of the people to the north of Nootka Sound as living very miserably on a paste made of the inner bark of * Meares's Voyage, ch. xxiv. p. 266. Id. ch. xi. p. 132. [page] 6
29%	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 treated him most kindly, and in whose service he remained. Meantime king Teraiopu was dead, and a son of his, named Kevalao, had succeeded him as Eree-tabu, or the sacred chief. It appears that this man treated his subjects tyrannically; and it is said, that if between sunrise and sunset any of the lower order were so unfortunate as to look upon him, even by accident, they incurred death . His Vancouver calls this person Teamawheere; Ellis calls him Kauikeouli, or Kavarao, and says he was
59%	A790.01 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1. Text of Cook, Vancouver, Bligh, D'ntrecasteaux, Flinders, and Baudin, have gradually thrown a considerable light upon this extraordinary continent, for such it may be called. Of these and other voyages that were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to various parts of its coasts, an account is given by the late Captain Flinders, in his introduction to the Investigator' voyage; in which, and in that able and valuable work of the late RearAdmiral Burney, A Chronological Account of Discoveries in
56%	A790.01 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1. Text occupied his attention, whilst I remained upon the summit, from whence a good view was obtained of the Eclipse Isles, and Vancouver's breakers, both of which are well laid down by Captain Flinders, whose correctness I had already many occasions to admire. An abundance of shells of the helix tribe (helix bulimus) was found on the top and sides of the hill; and a calcareous substance was observed protruding from the ground in every part, as noticed both by Vancouver and Flinders *; the former also
49%	A790.02 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2. Text Cape Leeuwin, and runs nearly on the meridian for more than fifty miles, seems to have a base of granite, which, at Cape Naturaliste, is said to be stratified . The same rock also occurs, among Captain King's specimens, from Bald-head in King George's Sound; but nearly on the summit of that hill, which is about five hundred feet high, were Found the ramified calcareous concretions, erroneously considered as corals by Vancouver and others ; but which appear, from Captain King's specimens, * P ron
39%	A790.01 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1. Text we hauled on the eastern side of the small central island. At this place Captain Vancouver planted and stocked a garden with vegetables, no vestige of which now remained. Boongaree speared a great many fish with his fiz-gig; one that he struck with the boat-hook on the shoals at the entrance of the Eastern River weighed twenty-two [page] 1
39%	A790.02 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2. Text attained the highest point of the range, and to observe another expanse, or extensive cavity, of bare white sand below us, to the S.E., the termination of which we afterwards found to be the Bald Head, of Captain Vancouver. This part is of remarkable appearance from seaward, having on either side [page] 15
35%	A761.04 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 4: Mammalia (4) Text . Lanigera.) This animal was first noticed by the Spanish missionaries in 1697, and subsequently by Venegas, in his History of California. Captain Vancouver afterwards brought a mutilated skin to Europe, and the late Lieutenant-general Davies presented a complete specimen to the Linn an Society of London. From this subject M. De Blainville published a notice under the name of Rupicapra Americana, in 1816. About this period Messrs. Lewis and Clark returned from their valuable travels, and brought
35%	A790.02 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2. Text have been visited by two English and two French expeditions of discovery; namely, those commanded by Admiral D'Entrecasteaux, Captains Vancouver and Flinders, and Commodore Baudin. The first merely touched upon the south coast at the Recherche's Archipelago, and on the south shores of Van Diemen's Land; and the second only at King George the Third's Sound, near the South-west Cape; but these opportunities were sufficient to celebrate the names of Labillardiere and Menzies as Australian
29%	A761.04 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 4: Mammalia (4) Text elegant lyrate shape of the beams, conspicuous in the drawing and in the first pair; its brow and bezantlers are conjoined at the base and point, nearly vertically, and the summit bears only a single fork with both processes upwards. There is some reason to believe that both these pair were brought to England by Captain Vancouver. In the drawing the horns shewn to the front correspond perfectly with the first-mentioned pair. The face of the animal is coloured dark-brown, a space round the eyes
29%	A761.10 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 10: Pisces. Text in the pursuit on shore; it swallows so greedily, and is so impatient to pass its half-digested food, to make room for more, that, as Commerson observed, the intestines are frequently forced out a considerable distance from the anus. So great indeed is the gluttony of this animal, that, as Vancouver relates, when harpooned, and no longer able to defend itself, it is sometimes torn to pieces by its companions. Seals, and tunny, cods, and other fish, form the ordinary food of the white shark; but
29%	A790.02 Beagle Library: King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2. Text A. Sect. VI. S. Coast. a northerly or a southerly wind; since, with the former, she can round Van Diemen's Land, without suffering much detention, or materially lengthening her voyage. KING GEORGE THE THIRD'S SOUND was discovered by Captain Vancouver in the year 1791, on his celebrated voyage to the North-west Coast of America. It offers an excellent resort for vessels, and is convenient for all the purposes of refitting, wooding, and watering. The natives are friendly; the banks of Oyster
42%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text formed by the Island of Sitka, where the Russian Fur Company's establishment of New Archangel has been since erected. Eschscholtz speaks of only one sort of salmon as frequenting that Sound, and remarks that it is well-flavoured, but Captain Dixon thought it inferior to the kind which he obtained in Cook's River. After the preceding pages had gone to the press, I received a letter from Dr. Gairdner, of Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia River, of which the following is an extract. My duties at
39%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text ra Colliei. An elephant fish, taken by Vancouver in Port Discovery, lat. 48 , in the Straits of Juan da Fuca, may possibly belong to this species. * Captain King says that the spawn of Callorhynchus bears a strong resemblance to a broad leaf of sea-weed, within the coats of which the fish, already perfect in form, is discovered suspended in fluid. Griffith's Cuvier, x., p. 97. [page] 28
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image discovered an island which we afterwards found to be RAPA, though usually designated Oparo. The first account of this island is given by Vancouver, who discovered it in his passage from New Zealand to Tahiti, on the 22d of December, [page] 4
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image their appearance was uninviting. Vancouver found them unusually shy at first, but afterwards remarkably bold, and exceedingly anxious to possess every article of iron they saw: although his ship was surrounded by not fewer than three hundred natives, there were neither young children, women, nor aged persons, in any of their canoes. A gigantic, fierce-looking fellow, seized a youth as he was standing by the gangway, and endeavoured to lift him from the deck; but the lad, struggling, escaped from
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image beach good, and fresh water convenient. Situated some degrees from the southern tropie, the climate is breaking and salubrious, the soil is fertile, and while it nourishes many of the valuable roots and fruits of the intertropical regions, is probably net less adapted to the more useful productions of temperate climes. Mr. Davies estimates the population at about two thousand. Vancouver supposed that Rapa contained not leas than fifteen hundred, merely from those he saw around his ship. In
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image by Captain Wallis, in 1767; and two years after, when first visited by Captain 'Cook; or when Captain Bligh, in the Bounty, spent six months at anchor here in 1788 and 1789; when Captain Vancouver arrived in 1792; Captain New, of the D dalus, in 1793; and Captain Wilson, in the Duff, who anchored in the same bay on the 6th of March, 1797. It was on the northern shores of this bay, that eighteen of the Missionaries, who left England in the Duff, first landed, upwards of thirty years ago. They were
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image instruct the natives, but found the acquisition of the language so difficult, and the insensibility of the people so great, that they were exceedingly discouraged. Some of the natives, however, were, led to inquire how it was that Cook, Vancouver, Bligh, and other early visitors, had never told them any of those things which they heard from the teachers now residing with them. Towards the close of the year 1799, the Missionaries were called to the melancholy duty of conveying to the silent grave, under
35%	A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image strength and nourishment which Europeans are accustomed to derive from the diet of their own country. The native fruits are delicious; and their number has been greatly increased by the addition of many of the most valuable tropical fruits. Oranges, shaddocks, limes, and other plants, were introduced by Captains Cook, Bligh, and Vancouver. Vines were originally taken by the Missionaries, but nearly destroyed by the natives in their wars. In 1824 I brought a number of plants from the Sandwich
35%	A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image has taken place during the last two or three generations, viz. since their discovery, may be easily accounted for. In addition to a disease, which, as a desolating scourge, spread, unpalliated and unrestrained, its unsightly and fatal influence among the people, two others are reported to have been carried thither one by the crew of Vancouver in 1790; and the other by means of the Britannia, an English whaler, in 1807. Both these disorders spread through the islands; the former almost as fatal as
29%	A919.1 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 1. Text . 44. Rocky-Mountain sheep. JAMESON, Wernerian Trans., vol. iii. p. 306. An. 1821 (read An. 1819.) Antilope lanigera. SMITH, Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 38. t. 4. An. 1822. PLATE XXII. The Rocky Mountain Goat has been supposed to be an inhabitant of California, where it is said to have been discovered by Fathers Piccolo and De Salvatierra, as will be noticed in the article on the Rocky Mountain sheep. Vancouver brought home a mutilated skin which he obtained on the North-west coast of America
29%	A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF interesting novelties in that splendid work. The voyages of Vancouver, Portlock, Meares, and Langsdorff, to the north-west coast, added little to Ornithology; nor is there much cer [page] xii
29%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text excellent condition: in addition to these, Dr. Gairdner, surgeon of the Hudson's Bay Company's establishment, at Fort Vancouver, ou the Oregon or Columbia River, sent me a cask full of specimens, which, though much damaged on the voyage, have, with the aid of his valuable notes, furnished the only means I possess of obtaining a knowledge of the fish of that river, and enabled me to understand in part the popular descriptions given in Lewis and Clarke's narrative; Dr. Scouler, of the Dublin
29%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text /15; A. 3/9; C. 17; V. 1/5; P. 18, of which nine are simple. It is taken plentifully among the Aleutian Islands, and is named kakootsheek by the inhabitants, and tockoo on the American coast. Vancouver found a sea-perch at Port Discovery, in the Straits of Juan da Fuca, which may be this species; but the name is too vaguely applied by sailors to render even the genus anything more than conjectural. [27.] 1. BLEPSIAS TRILOBUS. (Cuvier.) Three-lobed Blepsias. FAMILY, Cottoide . GENUS, Blepsias
29%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text anal 3 6 Length of its attachment 1 9 Space between anal and caudal 1 11 Length of caudal lobes 4 0 Length central rays of caudal 1 4 Depth of caudal fork 1 9 Page 122, to follow Cyprinus (Leuciscus) chrysoleucas. [130.] 3. CYPRINUS (LEUCISCUS) CAURINUS. (Rich.) Northwest Dace. FAMILY, Cyprinoide . GENUS, Cyprinus. Sub-genus, Leuciscus. CUV. This dace inhabits the Columbia River, and is abundant at Fort Vancouver, from whence I have obtained two dried specimens through Dr. Scouler, and more
25%	A919.1 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 1. Text numerous near the opening into the mouth. When full, the pouches had an oblong form, and, when empty, they were corrugated or retracted to one-third of their length; but they are never inverted so as to produce the hood-like form of the pouch of a diplostoma. When in the act of emptying its pouches, the animal sits on its hams like a marmot or squirrel, and squeezes his sacks against the breast with his chin and fore-paws. These little sand-rats are numerous in the neighbourhood of Fort Vancouver
25%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text large size, weighing often from thirty to forty pounds. G. [The quinnat is evidently the Common salmon of Lewis and Clarke, whose description of it we have quoted in page 162. These travellers mention the first arrival of the salmon at the Skilloot village, below the site of Fort Vancouver, as having occurred on the 18th of April, in the year 1806. R.] * In the map published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the descent at the Kettle Falls is stated at twenty-one feet; but
25%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text the lakes and rivers of the southern part of Greenland, though in small numbers. Fabricius says it is called neemereeak by the natives, and that the largest which he saw was thirty inches long and six in circumference. It is an object of abhorrence to the Greenlanders, who will not eat it. According to Vancouver, a small sort of eel of a yellowish-green colour and extremely good flavour, inhabits Port Discovery, in the straits of Juan da Fuca. The following account of the mode of fishing for eels
25%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text side of the Rocky Mountains, which I shall now allude to more particularly. Two specimens of a sturgeon, which I have named acipenser transmontanus, were sent to me from Fort Vancouver by Dr. Gairdner, accompanied by the following notice: The species attains eleven feet in length, and a weight of six hundred pounds ; the small specimens sent home were chosen for their portability. It enters the Columbia early in March every year, and is caught as high up as Fort Colville, notwithstanding the
25%	A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text . The dorsal ridge is much elevated at its junction with the nape. There are nine dorsal shields and thirty-five lozenge-shaped lateral ones. FINS. P. 50; V. 28; A. 22; D. 42. (LE SUEUR, l. c.) [118.] CHIM RA. Elephant fish. Elephant fish. VANCOUVER. The chim r , though placed by Cuvier at the end of the sturionide , seem to belong more properly to his second order of chondropterygii, in which the gills are fixed, for though there is only one apparent gill-opening on each side, the gills in
19%	A784.01 Beagle Library: Horsburgh, James. 1829. India directory, or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interjacent ports. 3d ed. 2 vols. London: Author. vol. 1. Text much less. The dipping needle, appears, however, an instrument too delicate to be used with accuracy at sea, and therefore, one of the principal arguments necessary to find the error of variation by the foregoing rule, can seldom or ever be obtained at sea: but probably this error depends more on the horizontal declination of the needle from the true meridian, than it does on the dip. Captain Vancouver's remarks. Captain Vancouver (as well as Captain Flinders), in steering with the ship's head to
43%	A739 Beagle Library: Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea. Text his intention was to wrest the sovereignty from the hands of the successor of Terreeoboo, an enterprize which he performed shortly afterwards, by assembling his forces and defeating him in a pitched battle, in which he is said to have slain him with his own hands. After this victory, no other chief possessing sufficient power to oppose Tamehameha, we find that on the arrival of Vancouver in 1792 he had acquired supreme authority both in Owyhee and Mowee. He soon afterwards attacked and
39%	A739 Beagle Library: Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea. Text TO THE KING. IN availing myself of Your Majesty's gracious permission to dedicate this work to your Majesty, I feel that I am performing a most pleasing duty. The claims of Your Majesty's family on the gratitude of the nation, for the efficient patronage they have afforded to maritime discovery, require merely to be alluded to, to ensure the attention of every well-wisher to his country. Under a less powerful Sovereign than your Royal Father, the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, in all
35%	A739 Beagle Library: Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea. Text afterwards a sham-fight with short spears, wherein very little skill was exhibited, and, compared with the dexterity of the warlike Tamehameha, who is said by Vancouver to have successfully evaded six spears thrown at him at the same instant, the present representation was quite contemptible. These exercises are now seldom practised, and in a short time, no doubt, both they and the dances will cease to be exhibited. On the 12th of February, we received the melancholy intelligence of the death of
35%	A739 Beagle Library: Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea. Text CHAPTER XIV. Observations on the Country of California and its Trade Climate Meteorological Remarks Short Account of the Wild Indians Natural Productions Monterey Mission of San Carlos Departure. The more we became acquainted with the beautiful country around San Francisco, the more we were convinced that it possessed every requisite to render it a valuable appendage to Mexico; and it was impossible to resist joining in the remark of Vancouver, Why such an extent of territory should have been

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