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.
and Island named after him.  Point Rodney.  Sledge Island, and Remarks on landing there.  King’s Island.  Cape Prince of Wales, the Western Extreme of America.  Course Westward.  Anchor in a Bay on the Coast of Asia, 323
IX.  Behaviour of the Natives, the Tschutski, on seeing the Ships.  Interview with some of them.  Their Weapons.  Persons.  Ornaments Clothing.  Winter and Summer Habitations.  The Ships cross the Strait, to the Coast of America.  Progress Northward.  Cape Mulgrave.  Appearance of Fields of Ice.  Situation of Icy Cape, the Sea blocked up with Ice.  Sea-horses killed, and used as Provisions.  These Animals described.  Dimensions of one of them.  Cape Lisburne.  Fruitless Attempt to get through the Ice at a Distance from the Coast.  Observations on the Formation of this Ice.  Arrival on the Coast of Asia.  Cape North.  The Prosecution of the Voyage deferred to the ensuing Year, 338
X. Return from Cape North, along the Coast of Asia.  Views of the Country.  Burney’s Island.  Cape Serdze Kamen, the Northern Limit of Beering’s Voyage.  Pass the East Cape of Asia.  Description and Situation of it.  Observations on Muller.  The Tschutski.  Bay of Saint Laurence.  Two other Bays, and Habitations of the Natives.  Beering’s Cape Tschukotskoi.  Beering’s Position of this Coast accurate.  Island of Saint Laurence.  Pass to the American Coast.  Cape Derby.  Bald Head.  Cape Denbigh, on a Peninsula.  Besborough Island.  Wood and Water procured.  Visits from the Natives.  Their Persons and Habitations.  Produce of the Country.  Marks that the Peninsula had formerly been surrounded by the Sea.  Lieutenant King’s Report.  Norton Sound.  Lunar Observations there.  Staehlin’s Map proved to be erroneous.  Plan of future Operations, 353
XI.  Discoveries after leaving Norton Sound.  Stuart’s Island.  Cape Stephens.  Point Shallow-Water.  Shoals on the American Coast.  Clerke’s Island.  Gore’s Island.  Pinnacle Island.  Arrival at Oonalashka.  Intercourse with the Natives and Russian Traders.  Charts of the Russian Discoveries, communicated by Mr Ismyloff.  Their Errors pointed out.  Situation of the Islands visited by the Russians.  Account of their Settlement at Oonalashka.  Of the Natives of the Island.  Their Persons.  Dress.  Ornaments.  Food.  Houses and domestic Utensils.  Manufactures.  Manner of producing Fire.  Canoes.  Fishing and Hunting Implements.  Fishes, and Sea Animals.  Sea and Water Fowls, and Land Birds.  Land Animals and Vegetables.  Manner of burying the Dead.  Resemblance of the Natives on this Side of America to the Greenlanders and Esquimaux.  Tides.  Observations for determining the Longitude of Oonalashka. 369
XII.  Departure from Oonalashka, and future Views.  The Island Amoghta.  Situation of a remarkable Rock.  Strait between Oonalashka and Oonella repassed.  Progress to the South.  Melancholy Accident on board the Discovery.  Mowee, one of the Sandwich
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