Australasia -- Description and travel; Australasia -- Discovery and exploration; Explorers -- Australasia
Captain Cook at Botany Bay 228
Captain Bligh and his Men searching for Oysters off the Great
Barrier Reef 282
Whaling in the South Seas 298
BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
The Biggest of the Kangaroos 38
Papuan of South-east New Guinea, near Port Moresby, and
Oceanic Negro Type from the Northernmost Solomon Islands 60
A Typical Polynesian, and an Australoid Type from Northern
Queensland 80
The Two Dutch Ships under Tasman's Command (the _Heemskerk_
and the _Zeehaen_) at Anchor in the Tonga Islands, Pacific 140
The Island of Tahiti and its extraordinary Double Canoes: as
seen by Captain Cook 206
A View of Dusky Bay, on the Great South Island of New Zealand,
with a Maori Family: as seen by Captain Cook 222
A Chief at St. Christina, in the Marquezas Archipelago, and a
Man of Easter Island 266
A Dancing Ground and Drums at Port Sandwich, Malekala
(Mallicolo) Island, New Hebrides. Tambu House (Temple)
in Background 276
* * * * *
Map of the Malay Archipelago 26
Map of Australasia 148
Map of Australia and New Zealand 300
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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