Produced by Thorsten Kontowski, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file made from scans of public domain material at Austrian Literature Online.) [Transcriber's Note: The original publication has been faithfully replicated except as listed near the end of this document under another Transcriber's Note. Italicized words are indicated _like this_. Bold words are indicated =like this=. Fractions are indicated like this: 3-14159/100000. The oe ligature is indicated like this: man[oe]uvre.] * * * * * [Illustration: CHART OF THE TRACK OF THE AUSTRIAN IMPERIAL FRIGATE NOVARA ON HER VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE _In The Years 1857, 1858 & 1859._] NARRATIVE OF THE Circumnavigation of the Globe BY THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE NOVARA, (COMMODORE B. VON WULLERSTORF-URBAIR,) _Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government_, IN THE YEARS 1857, 1858, & 1859, UNDER THE IMMEDIATE AUSPICES OF HIS I. AND R. HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND MAXIMILIAN, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AUSTRIAN NAVY. DR. KARL SCHERZER, MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION, AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA," ETC. VOL. I. [Illustration] LONDON: _SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO._ 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1861. [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.] LONDON: PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET. TO SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.S.ST., M.A., D.C.L., V.P.R.S., G.S., L.S., F.R.G.S., DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, TRUST. BRIT. MUS., ETC., ETC., THE GREAT PROMOTER OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE, These Pages are respectfully Inscribed, IN RECOGNITION OF HIS VALUABLE EXERTIONS IN ADVANCING THE SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS OF THE AUSTRIAN EXPEDITION, AS WELL AS IN GRATITUDE FOR THE HOSPITABLE RECEPTION SECURED TO THE NAVIGATORS THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH DEPENDENCIES, WHEREVER IT WAS THEIR GOOD FORTUNE TO CAST ANCHOR, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE. [Illustration: LETTER.] [Illustration: LETTER CONTINUED.] PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.