A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16Kerr, Robert
History
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
Kerr, Robert
Voyages and travels
X. Progress of the Voyage, after leaving the Society Islands.
Christmas Island discovered, and Station of the Ships there.
Boats sent ashore. Great Success in catching Turtle. An
Eclipse of the Sun observed. Distress of two Seamen who had
lost their Way. Inscription left in a Bottle. Account of the
Island. Its Soil. Trees and Plants. Birds. Its Size. Form.
Situation. Anchoring Ground, 139
XI. Some Islands discovered. Account of the Natives of Atooi,
who came off to the Ships, and their Behaviour on going
on Board. One of them killed. Precautions used to prevent
Intercourse with the Females. A Watering-place found.
Reception upon landing. Excursion into the Country. A Morai
visited and described. Graves of the Chiefs, and of the human
Sacrifices, there buried. Another Island, called Oneeheow,
visited. Ceremonies performed by the Natives, who go off to
the Ships. Reasons for believing that they are Cannibals.
A Party sent ashore, who remain two Nights. Account of what
passed on landing. The Ships leave the Islands, and proceed to
the North, 148
XII. The Situation of the Islands now discovered. Their
Names. Called the Sandwich Islands. Atooi described. The Soil.
Climate. Vegetable Productions. Birds. Fish. Domestic
Animals. Persons of the Inhabitants. Their Disposition.
Dress. Ornaments. Habitations. Food. Cookery. Amusements.
Manufactures. Working-tools. Knowledge of Iron accounted for.
Canoes. Agriculture. Account of one of their Chiefs. Weapons.
Customs agreeing with those of Tongataboo and Otaheite.
Their Language the same. Extent of this Nation throughout
the Pacific Ocean. Reflections on the useful Situation of the
Sandwich Islands, 172
XIII. Observations made at the Sandwich Islands, on the
Longitude, Variation of the Compass and Tides. Prosecution of
the Voyage. Remarks on the Mildness of the Weather, as far as
the Latitude 44 deg. North. Paucity of Sea Birds, in the Northern
Hemisphere. Small Sea Animals described. Arrival on the Coast
of America. Appearance of the Country. Unfavourable Winds and
boisterous Weather. Remarks on Martin de Aguilar's River, and
Juan de Fuca's pretended Strait. An Inlet discovered, where
the Ship's anchor. Behaviour of the Natives, 195
CHAP. IV. Transactions, amongst the Natives of North America;
Discoveries along that Coast and the Eastern Extremity of Asia,
Northward to Icy Cape; and return Southward to the Sandwich Islands,
207
SECT.
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