Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia

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Contents

	Page
Foreword	v
Introduction	1
The East Indies	1
America	1
Ferdinand Magellan	3
Loyasa and Saavedra	4
Villalobos and Gaetano	5
Legaspi and Urdaneta	5
Alvaro de Mendaña	6
Sir Francis Drake	6
Thomas Cavendish and others	7
Mendaña and Quiros	7
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros	8
Early Dutch voyages	11
Olivier van Noort	11
The Dutch East India Company	12
Joris Spilbergen	12
Le Maire and Schouten	13
The Nassau Fleet	15
Terra Australia Incognita	16
Abel Tasman	17
Buccaneers and privateers	18
>Jacob Roggeveen	19
British Explorers, 1740 to 1780	20
George Anson	20
John Byron	21
Wallis and Carteret	23
James Cook's first voyage	25
Cook's second voyage	26
Cook's third voyage	30
British navigators, 1780 to 1800	34
Portlock and Dixon	35
John Watts	36
William Bligh	36
John Meares	38
George Mortimer	38
Edward Edwards	39
George Vancouver	41
William Robert Broughton	45
James Wilson	46
French explorers of the eighteenth century	49
Louis de Bougainville	49
De Surville	51
Marion de Fresne and Croze	51
La Pérouse	54
Etienne Marchand	55
Bruni D'Entrecasteaux	56
Summary	59
Spanish voyages of the eighteenth century	59
Felipe Gonzalez	60
Domingo Boenechea	60
Boenechea and Gayangos	60 page viii
Cayetano de Langara	61
Francisco Antonio Maurelle	62
Summary	62
American voyages of the eighteenth century	63
Joseph Ingraham	63
Josiah Roberts	64
Edmund Fanning	65
Summary	67
Russian voyages	68
Russian voyagers, 1803 to 1826	69
Von Krusenstern	69
Urey Lisiansky	72
Hagenmeister	72
Mikhail Lazarev	73
Otto von Kotzebue's first voyage	74
Vassili Golovnin	75
Thaddeus Bellingshausen	77
Von Kotzebue's second voyage	78
Summary	79
French voyages of the nineteenth century	80
Camille de Roquefeuil	80
Louis de Freycinet	81
Louis Duperrey	83
Dumont d'Urville's first voyage	83
Duhaut-Cilly	84
J. A. Moerenhout	85
Abel du Petit-Thouars	86
Dumont d'Urville's second voyage	87
Summary	88
British voyages, 1800 to 1850	89
John Turnbull	89
Peter Corney	90
George Anson Byron	91
Frederick W. Beechey	92
Peter Dillon	95
Frederick Debell Bennett	97
Robert Fitz-Roy	98
Edward Belcher	99
Lord Edward Russell	100
John Erskine	101
Summary	101
American voyages, 1800 to 1842	101
David Porter	102
Charles S. Stewart	105
John Downes	105
Charles Wilkes	106
Summary	109
Literature cited	110
Index	113