Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Selkirk falling over the precipice with his prey . . . . . . . . . 15 "I plunged my pike into his breast" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fight between the _Centurion_ and a Spanish galleon . . . . . . . 22 "The council chose the latter alternative" . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 "Most of them on horseback" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 "One of them tore the carrion with his teeth" . . . . . . . . . . 37 "They made a thousand grimaces" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The natives waving palm-leaves as a sign of welcome . . . . . . . 52 Head-dresses of natives of Otahiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 "Pursued by the arrows of the natives" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 A struggle between the _Swallow_ and a Malay prah . . . . . . . . 68 Portrait of Bougainville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 "We made them sing" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Lancers' Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Pirogue of the Marquesas Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Mdlle. Barre's adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Captain James Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 "They were pursued so closely" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Otahitian flute-player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 A Fa-toka, New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Interior of a morai in Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Tatooed head of a New Zealander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 An I-pah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 A New Zealand family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 "They were kangaroos" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Otahitian fleet off Oparee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 "Three Indians emerged from the wood" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Among the icebergs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 New Zealand war canoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 New Zealand utensils and weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 "Who passed his days in being fed by his wives" . . . . . . . . . 148 O-Too, King of Otaheite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Monuments in Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Natives of Easter Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Natives of the Marquesas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Typical natives of the Sandwich Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 "The natives had sufficient confidence" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 "With the roof of considerable height" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 View of Christmas Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Kerguelen Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180