CHAPTER XL.--Piratical Voyage under George Anson--Unparalleled Mortality--Arrival and Sojourn at Juan Fernandez--A Prize--Capture of Paita--Preparations to attack the Manilla Galleon--Disappointment--Fortunate Arrival at Tinian--Romantic Account of the Island--A Storm--Anson's Ship driven out to Sea--The Abandoned Crew set about building a Boat--Return of the Centurion--Battle with the Manilla Galleon--Anson's Arrival in England--The Proceeds of the Cruise 393 CHAPTER XLI.--The First Scientific Voyage of Circumnavigation--The Dolphin and Tamar--Byron in Patagonia--Falkland Islands--Islands of Disappointment--Arrival at Tinian--Byron versus Anson--The Voyage Home--Wallis and Carteret--Their Observations in Patagonia--Wallis at Tahiti--A Desperate Battle--Nails lose their Value--A Tahitian Romance--Pitcairn's Island--Queen Charlotte's Islands--New Britain--The Voyage Home--A Man-of-War Destroyed by Fire 410 CHAPTER XLII.--Colonization of the Falkland Islands--Antoine de Bougainville--His Voyage around the World--Adventure at Montevideo--The Patagonians--Taking Possession of Tahiti--French Gallantry--Ceremonies of Reception--Sojourn at the Island--Aotourou--The First Female Circumnavigator--Famine on Board--Remarkable Cascade--Arrival at the Moluccas--Incidents there--Return Home 426 CHAPTER XLIII.--Expedition despatched at the Instance of the Royal Society--Lieutenant James Cook--Incidents of the Voyages--A Night on Shore in Terra del Fuego--Arrival at Tahiti--The Natives pick their Pockets--The Observatory--A Native chews a Quid of Tobacco--The Transit of Venus--Two of the Marines take unto themselves Wives--New Zealand--Adventures there--Remarkable War-Canoe--Cannibalism demonstrated--Theory of a Southern Continent subverted--New Holland--Botany Bay--The Endeavor on the Rocks--Expedient to stop the Leak--A Conflagration--Passage through a Reef--Arrival at Batavia--Mortality on the Voyage Home--Cook promoted to the Rank of Commander 435 CHAPTER XLIV.--Cook's Second Voyage--A Storm--Separation of the Ships--Aurora Australis--New Zealand--Six Water-Spouts at once--Tahiti again--Petty Thefts of the Natives--Cook visits the Tahitian Theatre--Omai--Arrival at the Friendly Islands--The Fleet witness a Feast of Human Flesh--The New Hebrides--New Caledonia--Return Home--Honors bestowed upon Cook 451