A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 768 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 768 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16.
in Nootka Sound.  Inside of them described.  Furniture and Utensils.  Wooden Images.  Employments of the Men.  Of the Women.  Food, Animal and Vegetable.  Manner of preparing it.  Weapons.  Manufactures and Mechanic Arts.  Carving and Painting.  Canoes.  Implements for Fishing and Hunting.  Iron Tools.  Manner of procuring that Metal.  Remarks on their Language, and a Specimen of it.  Astronomical and Nautical Observations made in Nootka Sound, 239
IV.  A Storm, after sailing from Nootka Sound.  Resolution springs a Leak.  Pretended Strait of Admiral de Fonte passed unexamined.  Progress along the Coast of America.  Behring’s Bay.  Kaye’s Island.  Account of it.  The Ships come to an Anchor.  Visited by the Natives.  Their Behaviour.  Fondness for Beads and Iron.  Attempt to plunder the Discovery.  Resolution’s Leak stopped; Progress up the Sound.  Messrs Gore and Roberts sent to examine its Extent.  Reasons against a Passage to the North through it.  The Ships proceed down it to the open Sea 260
V. The Inlet called Prince William’s Sound.  Its Extent.  Persons of the Inhabitants described.  Their Dress.  Incision of the Under-lip.  Various other Ornaments.  Their Boats.  Weapons.  Fishing and hunting Instruments.  Utensils.  Tools.  Uses Iron is applied to.  Food.  Language, and a Specimen of it.  Animals.  Birds.  Fish.  Iron and Beads, whence received, 279
VI.  Progress along the Coast.  Cape Elizabeth.  Cape St Hermogenes.  Accounts of Beering’s Voyage very defective.  Point Banks.  Cape Douglas.  Cape Bede.  Mount St Augustin.  Hopes of finding a Passage up an Inlet.  The Ships proceed up it.  Indubitable Marks of its being a River.  Named Cook’s River.  The Ships return down it.  Various Visits from the Natives.  Lieutenant King lands, and takes Possession of the Country.  His Report.  The Resolution runs aground on a Shoal.  Reflections on the Discovery of Cook’s River.  The considerable Tides in it accounted for, 291
VII.  Discoveries after leaving Cook’s River.  Island of St Hermogenes.  Cape Whitsunday.  Cape Greville.  Cape Barnabas.  Two-headed Point.  Trinity Island.  Beering’s Foggy Island.  A beautiful Bird described.  Kodiak and the Schumagin Islands.  A Russian Letter brought on Board by a Native.  Conjectures about it.  Rock Point.  Halibut Island.  A Volcano Mountain.  Providential Escape.  Arrival of the Ships at Oonalaschka.  Intercourse with the Natives there.  Another Russian Letter.  Samganoodha Harbour described, 306
VIII.  Progress Northward, after leaving Oonalashka.  The Islands Oonella and Acootan.  Ooneemak.  Shallowness of the Water along the Coast.  Bristol Bay.  Round Island.  Calm Point.  Cape Newenham.  Lieutenant Williamson lands, and his Report.  Bristol Bay, and its Extent.  The Ships obliged to return on account of Shoals.  Natives come off to the Ships.  Death of Mr Anderson; his Character;
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