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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third VoyageKing, James

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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third Voyage

Name: The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third Voyage
Author: King, James

King, James

Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century

Working up to Macao.—A Chinese Comprador.—Sent on Shore
   to visit the Portuguese Governor.—Effects of the
   Intelligence we received from Europe.—Anchor in the
   Typa.—Passage up to Canton.—Bocca Tygris.—Wampû.—
   Description of a Sampane.—Reception at the English
   Factory.—Instance of the suspicious Character of the
   Chinese.—Of their Mode of Trading.—Of the City of
   Canton.—Its Size.—Population.—Number of Sampanes.—
   Military Force.—Of the Streets and Houses.—Visit to a
   Chinese.—Return to Macao.—Great Demand for the
   Sea-Otter Skins.—Plan of a Voyage for opening a fair
   Trade on the Western Coast of America, and
   prosecuting further Discoveries in the Neighbourhood
   of Japan.—Departure from Macao.—Price of Provisions
   in China                                                          380


                                CHAP. X.

 Leave the Typa.—Orders of the Court of France
   respecting Captain Cook.—Resolutions in Consequence
   thereof.—Strike Soundings on the Macclesfield Banks.—
   Pass Pulo Sopata.—Steer for Pulo Condore.—Anchor at
   Pulo Condore.—Transactions during our Stay.—Journey
   to the principal Town.—Receive a Visit from a
   Mandarin.—Examine his Letters.—Refreshments to be
   procured.—Description, and present State of the
   Island.—Its Produce.—An Assertion of M. Sonnerat
   refuted.—Astronomical and Nautical Observations                   405


                                CHAP. XI.

 Departure from Pulo Condore.—Pass the Straits of
   Banca.—View of the Island of Sumatra.—Straits of
   Sunda.—Occurrences there.—Description of the Island
   of Cracatoa.—Prince’s Island.—Effects of the Climate
   of Java.—Run to the Cape of Good Hope.—Transactions
   there.—Description of False Bay.—Passage to the
   Orkneys.—General Reflections                                      421


                                APPENDIX.


 Vocabulary of the Languages of the Friendly Islands                 445

 Vocabulary of the Language of Nootka, or King George’s
   Sound                                                             453

 Vocabulary of the Language of Atooi, one of the
   Sandwich Islands                                                  457

 Table to show the Affinity between the Languages spoken
   at Oonalashka and Norton Sound, and those of the
   Greenlanders and Esquimaux                                        461

 A comparative Table of Numerals, exhibiting the
   Affinity and Extent of Language, which is found to
   prevail in all the Islands of the Eastern Sea, and
   derived from that spoken on the Continent of Asia, in    _To face_ p.
   the Country of the Malayes                                        462




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