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An Account of the V OYAG ES undertaken
by the order of his prefect Majesty, for making
Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and fuc
cefae/y performed by Commodore Byron, Capt.
Wallis, Capt. Carteret, and Capt. Cook,
in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour:
Dra^n up from the journals <whicb cvere kept by
the federal commanders, and from the papers of
Joseph Banks, Esq. By John Hawkes
worth, LL. D. In three volumes 410. Illus
trated with cuts, charts, maps, &c.
„^l* ^ & ™\ N the general introduction to
^ ^^ this work the reader is informed,
'h^'" that his Majesty, soon after his
accession to the Crown, formed
^' ^'f % a design of fending out vessels
C for making discoveries of coun
^Q) ~ tries unknown; and in the year
1764, the kingdom being then in a state of pro
found peace, he proceeded to put it into execution.
The Dolphin and Tamar were dispatched under
the command of Commodore Byron. The Dol
phin was a man of war of the sixth rate, mounting
24 guns; her complement was 150 men, with
three Lieutenants and 37 petty officers.
The Tamar was a sloop, mounting 16 guns;
her complement was 90 men, with three Lieute
nants and 22 petty officers, and the command of
her was given to Capt. Mouat.
Commodore Byron retured in the month of
May 1766, and in August following, the Dolphin
was again sent out, under the command of Capt.
Wallis, with the Swallow, commanded by Capt.
Carteret, in prosecution of the fame general de
fgn of making discoveries in the Southern Hemi
sphere. The equipment of the Dolphin was the
fame as before. The Swallow was a sloop,
mounting 14 guns; her complement was 90 men,
with one Lieutenant and 22 petty officers. These
vessels proceeded together till they came within
fight of the South Sea, at the western entrance of
the Streight of Magellan, and from thence return
ed by different routs to England.
The Endeavour failed on her voyage from
Plymouth on the 26th of August 1768; her com
plement of officers and men was Lieutenant Cook
the commander, with two Lieutenants under him,
a master and boatswain, with each two mates, a
surgeon and carpenter, with each one mate, a
gunner, a cook, a clerk, and steward, two quar
ter masters, an armourer, a fail-maker, three
midshipmen, 41 able seamen, twelve marines,
and nine servants, in all 84 persons, besides the
commander. She was victualled for 18 months,
and took on board ten carriage and twelve swivel
guns, with good store of ammunition and other
necefraries. What was effected by these vessels
in their several voyages appears in the 'courfe of
this work.
Thefollowing extract describing the inhabitants
of Patagonia, is feleded from the Honourable
Commodore Byron's voyage, on board his Majes
ty's ship the Dolphin.
Ai break of day, so n t h e 20th of December,
1764^ We were off Cape Fair-weather,
TELca bore about weft at the distance of four
leagues, and we had here but thirteen fathom wa
ter, so thrtt it Appears necessary to give that Cape
3 good birth. From this place Iran close in fliore
to Cane Virgin Mary, but I found the coast to lie
S.S.E. very different from Sir John Narborough's
description, and a long spit of fandtunning to the
fouth,ward of the Cape for above a league. in the
evening I worked up close to this spit of find,
having seen many Guanicoes feeding in the vallies
as we went along, and a great smoke all the after
noon, about four or five leagues up the Streight,
upon the north fliore. At this place I came to an
anchor in fifteen fathom water, but the Lamar
was so far to leeward, that she could not fetch
the anchoring ground, and therefore kept under
way all night.
The next morning, at day-break, I got under
fail, and feeing the fame smoke that I had ob
served the day before, I flood in for it, and an
chored about two miles from the shore. This is
the place where the crew of the Wager, as they
were passing the Streight in their boat, after the
loss of the vessel, saw a number of horsemen, who
waved what appeared to be white handkerchiers,
inviting them to come on shore, which they were
very desirous to have done, but it blew so hard
that they were obliged to stand out to sea. Bulke
ley, the Gunner of the Wager, who has published
some account of her voyage, fays, that they were
in doubt whether these people were Europeans
who had been shipwrecked upon the coast, or na
tive inhabitants of the country about the river
Gallagoes. Just as we came to an anchor, I law
with my glass exa&ly what was seen by the people
in the Wager, a number of horsemen riding back
ward and forward, diredly abreast of the ship,
and waving somewhat white, as an invitation to
us to come on fliore. As I was very desirous to
know what these people were, I ordered out my
twelve oar'd boat, and went towards the oeach,
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witli Mr. Marshall, my second Lieutenant, and a
party of men, very well armed; Mr. Cumming,
my firft Lieutenant, following in the fix oared
cutter. When we came within a little distance
of the fliore, we saw, as near as I can guess, about
five hundred people, some on foot, but the greater
part on horseback : they drew up upon a ftoney
spit, which ran a good way into the sea, and up
on which it was very bad landing, for the water
was shallow, and the stones very large. The peo
ple on shore kept waving and hallooing, which, as
we understood, were invitations to land; I could
not perceive that they had any weapons among
them, however I made signs that they should re
tire to a little distance, with which they immedi
ately complied: they continued to shout with great
vociferation, and in a short time we landed, tho'
not without great difficulty, most of the boat's
crew being upto the middle in water. I drew up
my people upon the beach, with my officers at
their head, and gave orders that none of them
should move from that station, till I should either
call or beckon to them. I then went forward
alone, towards the Indians, but perceiving that
they retired as I advanced, I made signs that one
of them should come near : as it happened, my
signals were understood, and one of them, who
afterwards appeared to be a Chief, came towards
me: he was of a gigantic stature, and seemed to
realize the tales of mongers in a human shape: he
had the ficin, of some wild beast thrown over his
shoulders, as a Scotch Highlander wears his plaid,
and was painted so as to make the most hideous
appearance I ever beheld: round one eye was a
large circle of white, a circle of black surrounded
the other, and the rest of his face was streaked
with paint of different colours ; I did not measure
him, but if I may judge of his height by the pro
portion of his stature to my own, it could not be
much less than seven feet. When this frightful
Colossus came up, we muttered somewhat to each
other as a salutation, and I then walked with him
towards his companions, to whom, as I advanced,
I made signs that they should fit down, and they
all readily complied: there were among them ma
ny women, who seemed to be proportionably large;
and few of the men were less than the Chief
who had come forward to meet me. I had heard
their voices very loud at a distance, and when I
came near, I perceived a good number ofvery old
men, who were chanting some unintelligible words
in the most doleful cadence I ever heard, with an
air of serious solemnity, which inclined me to
think that it was a religious ceremony: they were
all painted and eloathed nearly in the fame man
ner; the circles round the two eyes were in no
instance of qne colour, but they were not univer
sally black and white, some being white and red,
and some red and black; their teeth were as white
as ivory, remarkably even and well set; but ex
cept the ficins, which they wore with the hair in
wards, most of them were naked, a few only
having upon their legs a kind of boot, with a short
pointed flick faftened to each heel, which served
^ a fpuf. Having looked round upon these enor
mous goblips with no small astonishment, and
with some difficulty made those that were still
galloping up fit down with the rest, I took out a
quantity of yellow and white beads, which I dis
tributed among them, and which they received
with very strong expressions of pleasure : I then
took out a whole piece of green silk ribband, and
giving the end of it into the hands of one of them,
I made the person that fat next take hold of it,
and so on as far as it would reach : all this while
they fat very quietly, nor did any of those that
held the ribband attempt to pull it from the rest,
though I perceived that they were still more de
lighted with it, than with the beads. While the
ribband was thus extended, I took out a pair of
feiffars, and cut it between each two of the In
dians that held it, so that I left about a yard in
the possession of every one, which I afterwards
tied about their heads, where they fuffered it to
remain without so much as touching it while I
was with them. Their peaceable and orderly be
haviour on this occasion certainly did them ho
nour, especially as my presents could not extend
to the whole company: neither impatience to
share the new finery, nor curiosity to gain a near
er view of me and what I was doing, brought any
one of them from the station that I had allotted
him. It would be very natural for those who
have read Gay's fables, if they form an idea of an
Indian almost naked, returning to his fellows in
the woods adorned with European trinkets, to
think of the monkey that had seen the world; yet
before we despise their fondnefs for glass, beads,
ribbands, and other things, which among us are
held in no estimation, we should confider that, in
themselves, the ornaments of savage and civil life
are equal, and that those who live nearly in a state
of nature, have nothing that resembles glass, so
much as glass resembles a diamond; the value
which we set upon a diamond, therefore, is more
capricious than the value which they set upon glass.
The love of ornament seems to be a universal
principle in human nature, and theipleuum tiauf-
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parency of glass, and the regular figure of a bead,
are among the qualities that by the con ftitution
of our nature excite pleasing ideas; and although
in one of these qualities the diamond excels glass,
its value is much more than in proportion to the
difference : the pleasure which it gives among us
is, principally, by conferring diftindion, and gra
tifying vanity, which is independent of natural
taste, that is gratified by certain hues and figures,
to which for that reason we give the name of
beauty: it must be remembered also, that an In
dian is more distinguished by a glass button or a
bead, than any individual among us by a diamond,
though perhaps the fame facrifice is not made to
his vanity, as the pofTellion of his finery is rather
a testimony of his good fortune, than of his in
fluence or power in consequence of his having
what, as the common medium of all earthly pof
feffons, is supposed to confer virtual fupjriority,
and intrinsic advantage. The people, 'however,
whom I had now adorned, were not wholly Gran
gers to European commodities, for upon a closer
attention, I perceived among them one woman
who had bracelets either of brass, or very pale
gold, upon her arms, and some beads of blue
glass, strung upon two long queues of hair, which
being parted at the top, hung down over each
shoulder before her: flie was of a most enormous
size, and her face was, if possible, more frightfully
painted than the rest. I had a great desire to
learn where she got her beads and bracelets, and
enquired by all the signs I could devise, but found
it impossible to make myfelf understood. One of
the men shewed me the bowl of a tobacco pipe,
which was made of a red earth, but I soon found
that they had no tobacco among them; and this
person made me underhand that he wanted some:
upon this I beckoned to my people, who remained
upon the beach, drawn up as I had left them, and
three or four of them ran forward, imagining that
I wanted them. The Indians, who, as I had
observed, kept their eyes almost continually upon
them,no sooner saw fume of them advance,than they
all rose up with a great clamour, and were leaving
the place, as I supposed to get their arms, which
were probably left at a little distance : to prevent
mifehief, therefore, and put an end to the alarm,
which had thus accidentally been spread among
them, I ran te meet the people who were, in con
sequence of my signal, coming from the beach,
and as soon as I was within hearing I hallooed
to them, and told them that I would have only
one come up with all the tobacco that he could
collect from the rest. As soon as the Indians saw
this, they recovered from their furprize, and eve
ry one returned to bis station, except a very old
man, who came up to me, and sung a Jong song,
which I much regretted my not being able to un
derstand: before the song was well finiffied, Mr.
Cumming came up with the tobacco, and I could
not but smile at the astonishment which I saw ex
pressed in his countenance, upon perceiving him
felf, though fix feet two inches high, become at
once a pigmy among giants; for these people may
indeed more properly be called giants than tall
men: of the few among us who arc full fix feet
high, scarcely any are broad and muscular in pro
portion to their stature, but look rather like men
of the common bulk, run up accidentally to an
unusual height; and a man who ffiould measure
only fix feet two inches, and equally exceed a
stout well set man of the common stature in breadth
and muscle, would strike us rather as being ®f a
gigantic race, than as an individual accidentally
anomalous; our sensations therefore, upon feeing
five hundred people, the shortest of whom were
at Icaft four inches taller, and bulky in proportion,
may be easily imagined. After I had presented
the tobacco, four or five of the chief men came
up to me, and, as I understood by the signs they
made, wanted me to mount one of the horses, and
go with them to their habitations, but as it would
upon every account have been imprudent to comply,
I made signs in return that I must go back to the
fllip; at this they expressed great concern, and
fat down in their Rations again. During our pan
tomimical conference, an old man often laid his
head down upon the stones, and shutting his eyes
for about half a minute, afterwards pointed firft
to his mouth, and then to the hills, meaning as I
imagined, that if I would stay with them till the
morning, they would furnifh me with some pro
visions, but this offer I was obliged to decline;
When I left them, net one of them offered to
follow us, but as long as I could fee them, con
tinued to fit quietly in their places. I observed
that they had with them a great number of dogs,
with which I suppose they chafe the wild animals
which serve them for food. The horses were not
large, nor in good case, yet they appeared to be
nimble, and well broken. The bridle was a lea
thern thong, with a small piece of wood that ser
ved for a bit, and the saddles resembled the pads
that are in use among the country people in Eng
land. The women rode astride, and both men
and women without fcirrups ; yer they gallopped
fearlefsly over'the spit upon which we landed,
the Rones of which were large, loose and slippery.
t H E
ADVERTISER
NOVEMBER
BY Virtue of a Writ, to rue <7^
fold, on THURSDAYthe ~,d
November infant, at five o'clock in T^ V .
the London Coffee House, a certain ri
tenement, and lot or piece of gropm , ~,
belonging, situate on the weft fide of : - -;,
continued southward beyond the cT < '-
phia, containing in breadth 20 feet >T
or depth 60 feet, bounded by Front hrrV• ,\
and by ground of Edward Shippen,7 .;
late the estate of Ann Reardon, FdTr
and Andrew Fitzfimmons; seized an;;-
cution by Judah Foulke, Esq; late If '
WILLIAM DEWEES, f: %
JAMES CUNNITct
At the sign of the Spinning Wheel,
Greet, within one door of Third f,e..,~
pofite the Meal Market, has just fop^hrd . f
with a frefh assortment of
DRY GOOD
Which he is determined to fell by whok;"J . %
tail, on the lowest terms.
AS said Goods are laid in on the v^.ft
none excepted, he hopes to b # • : ;
power to fell to such as please to mas .• - (
terms that will be agreeable to them. : ;
Goods are a general assortment of 7 /# \y
CLOTHS, viz. fuperfines at gos pr. .u„
others in proportion down to ,
LINENS, from 7/ to 1 fd. per son :
N. B. He most gratefully acknewiD + -
favours he has received from the public r, ^-
for a continuance of them, as he will evt \.-
his constant study to merit their esteem.
FOR THE
SCURVY AND RHEUMATIC I
Doctor Eustace's : '
SCORBUTIC DROPS, the
ana infallible cure for those reignin? dhfrO < ,
Scurvy and Rheumatism, though arrjv < p
higbeft degree of inveteracy, and of r- o :
landing, and that without any sensible erv r '
or the leuft purging, which h,y an uu--
mistake, is generally advised in fcor': .:,
though moftiy found rather to increafc and . J
the scurvy than cure it. These justly est? •, 1
mical drops, without any trouble or
do immediately strike at the true causes T^ '.
vy and Rheumatism and their effe&s ; thru ,
alter the morbid state of the juices, purify r
sweeten the fluids, and cleanse them fromi :
they effectually remove languid heavinev , f V
whole body, wandering pains, weaknefi . <:.
back, and all the vast variety of fymp \
which the Scurvy and Rheumatism are a: :
they also a& as a cordial restorative to or<
emaciated constitutions, by Grengthenicq #
mach, creating an appetite, promoting ,:
and shortly restoring the defponding patien: :
state of vigour and activity.
N. B. Any person afflicted with fcorburir ^
or violent rheumatic pains, may (by ap l ^
the Doctor, at bis shop fix doors arov^ r
ket-ftreet in Front-street) meet with ample
tion and immediate relief. Letters Poft-p^ . ,
answered.
AMERICAN MAGAZ;? .
TH OSE gentlemen and ladies, whoin< ^ f ,
encourage the publication of the R O'
AMERICAN MAGAZINE, are ^.. r
informed, that the fubfeription papers w].°.
turned to the intended publisher in a few / r
order that be may afeertain the number fir,
for. Subscriptions are taken in by the , ,
hereof.g
N. B. The introduction to the Royal A n 1
Magazine (or number I. to be ornament 1 i
two elegant copper-plate prints) will be pc<* !.\
on the firft day of January next.
AN AUCTIONOF F?)C r
will be held next door to the Sid, and ,
Boat, near South-Greet, below Mr. JT^ 7
by the fubferiber, who intends to b^fytte ;
a large and neat assortment of New.
on the third Monday of this irJtanfyW—,
to be put up at half price, and Old
the company pleases. ^I
A Vendue of Merchandize,
and Wearing Apparel, will he h^CTRIr
week at foid auction room: GoedPfecu'i^^^g
given to those that fend quantities of
required.
Books, &c. will be received ,t
Brooks's near the Coffee-Houfe)
beriberis near South-Greet wharf,
compliments to those Ladies and
have books, &c. to dispose of, and fol©ts their
torn. A:1 possible care will be taken to
buver and leber, by
ALEXANDER PoT: V
N. B. The firft evening of Aud!iQra will '\t
a gold watch, a few silver watches and some j. -
lery.
T O - M OR R 0
At ONE O'CLOCK, at r '
J O H N HA R T's
VEN DUE- S T ORu,
At the corner of South and Front-S. ^r.t s,
;Will begin the SALE of a. la
assortment of
Imerc 11a ndl ?: r,
IHOU $ H OLD FURNITU: ,
WEARING APPAREL, B
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