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Four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - Cooks third voyage, the French expedition commanded by La Prouse, the Malaspina expedition sent out by Spain, and George Vancouvers Voyage of Discovery. All four visited the northwest coast of North America, but weather and circumstances prevented Cook from making more than what Beaglehole calls a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance; La Prouse only touched the coast in a significant way at Yakutat Bay and Lituya Bay, and Malasinas memorable visits were to Yakutat Bay and Nootka Sound. Vancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from Lower California to Cook Inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of the world the intricacies of Puget Sound and the western coast of mainland Canada. It was an achievement that places him with his mentor, Cook, in the first rank of marine surveyors. As a midshipman Vancouver had been with Cook when he discovered the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands in 1778. They attracted his interest, and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and their political future when he twice later wintered there will surprise many. This is the first annotated edition of Vancouvers journal as he revised it for publication in 1798. The original manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25 partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the expedition have survived. These supplement Vancouvers narrative at many points. It has been possible to identify virtually all the host of islands, channels and inlets that Vancouver encountered, and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicated. Book 1 of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of Discovery ... (London, 1798). The main pagination of this and the following three volumes is continuous. The voyage to Australia and Tahiti,
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The Voyage of George Vancouver, 17911795
Volume 2
Edited by
W. Kaye Lamb
W. Kaye Lamb
First published by Ashgate Publishing
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WORKS ISSUED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
THE VOYAGE OF GEORGE VANCOUVER, 1791-1795
VOLUME II
SECOND SERIES NO. 164
HAKLUYT SOCIETY
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, 1983-84
PRESIDENT
Professor D. B. QUINN
Professor D. B. QUINN
VICE-PRESIDENTS
- Professor K. R. ANDREWS
- Professor C. F. BECKINGHAM
- Professor C. R. BOXER, F.B.A.
- Professor EILA M. J. CAMPBELL
- Dr E. S. DE BEER, C.B.E., F.B.A.
- Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
- Professor G. WILLIAMS
COUNCIL ( with date of election )
- Professor J. S. CUMMINS (1980)
- Commander A. C. F. DAVID (1981)
- STEPHEN EASTON
- Professor P. E. H. HAIR (1979)
- J. C. H. KING (1983)
- Professor P.J. MARSHALL (1979)
- PAUL PUTZ (1983)
- Rear-Admiral G. S. RITCHIE, C.B., D.S.C. (1983)
- Professor A. N. RYAN (1983)
- Royal Commonwealth Society, D. H. SIMPSON (1980)
- Royal Geographical Society (Mrs DOROTHY MIDDLETON)
- Dr G. SCAMMELL (1981)
- Mrs ANN SHIRLEY (1980)
- Sir HAROLD SMEDLEY, K.C.M.G. (1981)
- M. F. STRACHAN, C.B.E., F.R.S.E. (1979)
TRUSTEES
Dr E. S. DE BEER, C.B.E., F.B.A.
Sir PHILIP HAY, K.C.V.O., T.D.
Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
H. H. L. SMITH
Sir PHILIP HAY, K.C.V.O., T.D.
Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
H. H. L. SMITH
HONORARY TREASURER
J. F. MAGGS
HONORARY SECRETARIES
Dr T. E. ARMSTRONG, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge CB2 1ER
MRS SARAH TYACKE, The Map Library, The British Library, Reference Division, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
MRS SARAH TYACKE, The Map Library, The British Library, Reference Division, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
HONORARY SECRETARIES FOR OVERSEAS
- Australia: D. McD. HUNT, The State Library of N.S.W., MacQuarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W., 2000.
- Canada: Professor J. B. BIRD, McGill University, Montreal.
- South Africa: Dr F. R. BRADLOW, 205 Fairbairn House, 140 St George's Street, Cape Town 8001.
- New Zealand: J. E. TRAUE, The Alexander Turnbull Library, P.O. Box 12-349, Wellington C.1.
- U.S.A.: DR NORMAN FIERING, The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Mrs ALEXA BARROW (postal address only). Hakluyt Society, c/o The Map Library, The British Library, Reference Division, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Zachary Mudge.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World 1791-1795
With an Introduction and Appendices
VOLUME II
EDITED BY W. KAYE LAMB
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
LONDON
1984
LONDON
1984
The Hakluyt Society 1984
ISBN 0 904180 18 2
0 904180 16 6 (set of four volumes)
0 904180 16 6 (set of four volumes)
Printed in Great Britain by the
University Press, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge
Contents
- F3
- F4
- i
- ii
- ix
Guide
Indicates engravings reproduced from a set of the 1798 edition of A Voyage of Discovery in the British Library (1889 R 42), by permission of the Library. Original captions, where retained, are indicated by quotation marks.
Plates
- 20. Zachary (or Zachariah) Mudge
From a photograph of the portrait by John Opie, courtesy of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia - 21. 'View of a Boat Encampment, Pugets Sound'
Sketch by John Sykes. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, Berkeley. 1963. 2. 1112 PIC - 22. 'View of Observatory Point, Port Quadra [now Discovery Bay], Straits de Fuca'
Sketch by John Sykes. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, Berkeley. 1963. 2. 1119 PIC - 23. 'Four remarkable supported Poles, in Port Townshend, Gulph of Georgia'
Sketch by John Sykes engraved by James Heath - 24. 'Mount Rainier, from the South part of Admiralty Inlet'
Sketch by John Sykes engraved by John Landseer - 25.Dionisio Alcal Galiano
From the portrait in the Museo Naval, Madrid - 26. Cayetano Valds
From the portrait in the Museo Naval, Madrid - 27. 'Village of the Friendly Indians at the entrance of Bute's Canal'
Sketch by Thomas Heddington engraved by John Landseer - 28. 'Cheslakee's Village in Johnstone's Straits'
Sketch by John Sykes engraved by John Landseer - 29. 'The Discovery on the Rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound'
Sketch by Zachary Mudge engraved by B. T. Pouncy - 30. Sketch, believed to represent the Ddalus , in a rough journal by William Gooch in Cambridge University Library
Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of the Library - 31. 'Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound'
Sketch by Henry Humphrys engraved by James Heath - 32. Nootka Chief Maquinna
Attributed to Jos Cardero, an artist with the Galiano-Valds expedition of 1793. By permission of the British Library - 33. 'The Mission of St Carlos, near Monterrey'
Sketch by John Sykes engraved by B. T. Pouncy - 34. 'The Presidio of Monterrey'
Sketch by John Sykes engraved by James Fittler - 35. Reduced facsimile of Broughton's 'Plan of the River Oregan [the Columbia], from an Actual Survey.'
Published by Arrowsmith. By permission of the British Library.
Sketch Maps
All base maps by Michael E. Leek
Visit the Sandwich Islands; Proceed to Survey the Coast of New Albion; Pass Through an Inland Navigation; Transactions at Nootka; Arrive at Port St. Francisco.
Chapter I.
Passage to the Sandwich Islands Arrive off Owhyhee Visit from Tianna and other Chiefs Leave Towereroo at Owhyhee Proceed to Leeward Anchor in Whytete Bay in Waohoo Arrival at Attowai.
OUR friends having quitted us soon after noon on Tuesday the 24th, we directed our course to the northward, and notwithstanding we had now been nearly ten months absent from England, it was not until the present moment that our voyage could be considered as commenced; having now for the first time pointed our vessels' heads towards the grand object of the expedition. I cannot help mentioning that I felt, on this occasion, very considerable regret for the little progress we had hitherto made. It was now within a few days of the time I had calculated, agreeably to the arrangements in England, that we should be quitting the Sandwich islands which were yet at the remote distance of nearly eight hundred leagues. One satisfactory reflection however was, that we had not been retarded by any mispent time, or inexcusable delays; and that although a month had been devoted to the examination of the south-west part of New Holland, that period was, without doubt, not unprofitably employed. Adverse winds, and the indifferent sailing of the vessels had principally operated to prevent our being further advanced.
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