A Voyage round the World, performed during the years 1790, 1791, and 1792, by Étienne Marchand, preceded by a historical introduction, and illustrated by charts, etc. Translated from the French, etc. (Journal of the route ... by Captain P. Chanal.)

Front matter

A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1790, 1791, AND 1792, BY ETIENNE MARCHAND, PRECEDED BY A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, AND fcp Cimttaf, etc. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF C. P. CLARET FLEURIEU, OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND OF THE BOARD OF LONGITUDE OF FRANCE. VOL. I. LONDON: printed roa t. n. longman and o. rees, paternoster-row; and t. cadell, jun. AND W. DAVIES, STRAND. 1801. N. B. The original of tlie following work was printed in Paris in the year 1 797, though, from various causes, not published till the present. Printed by A. S tra hari, Printers-Street.

ADVERTISEMENT.

. TTAViNG been favoured with the fair sheets of the original of the following voyage by the Author, M. Fleurieu, we have judged that an Englisli edition of it might not, perhaps, be altogether unacceptable to the public. The plan of the work is so fully explained in the following Introduction as to render it unnecessary for us to fay a word on that subject. On comparing our translation with the original, it will be found that we have most scrupulously followed our Author from the beginning of his Introduction to the end of the Journal of the Route. This comprises the whole of the Narrative of Marchand's voyage, and the Notes relating to it. The two volumes of natural history, descriptive of the birds, fishes, &c. &c. seen in the course of the voyage, being intended more as a vehicle of in struction to navigators in general, than a fresh source of information to per sons already versed in that interesting science, we have thought that those who might be desirous of reaping in so extensive a field would prefer consulting the original to having recourse to a translation; and, for that reason, we have de clined rendering them into English.

Introduction

. PAGE Cortes, year 1 537> ------ ii Coronado and Alar$on, 1540, . - - - y Cabrillo, 1542, ---..-- -ib. Drake, 1578, - - - - - vi Juan deFuca, 1592, ------ vii Vise aino and Aguil ar, 1602, - - ■*■..,.- ix Admiral de Fuente, ----- xiv Beering and Tschiricow, Ist Voyage, 1728, ... xxx The/ame Und Voyage, 1729, ----- xxxii The same, Hid Voyage, 1 741, ... ., ib. Vicente Vila and Gaspar de Portola, 1769, - - xxxix Expedition of the Spaniards by land, 1 77 1, • - xli Presumed Voyage of the Spaniards, in 1774, - - xiii Ayala and La Bodega, 1775, ----- xliii Arteaga, 1779, ------ liv Cook, 1778, - " Ixii LaPerouse, 1786, ...---- lxx Various CONTENTS- Page Various partial Surveys between the 48th and the 56th Parallels, lxxix Voyage projected by W. Bolts, in 178 1, - lxxx Hanna, Ist Voyage, 1785, ----- lxxxi The same, Hnd Voyage, 1786^ ----- ib.

Peters, 1786, - - - - - - - lxxxii Lowrie and Guise, 1786, ----- lxxxiii Meares and Tipping, 1786-87, - - - - Ixxxv Portlock and Dixon, 1786-87, - Ixxxvii Berkeley, 1787, ------ xc Colnett and Duncan, 1787-88, - - - - xci Meares and Douglas, 1788-89, - xcviii Grey (American) 1788-89 - - - - - xcix New Voyages of the Spaniards, - - - - - ciii Don Martinez and Don Haro, 1788, - - - - civ Don Martinez, 1789, --■--__ cvji Malespina, 1 790 and following years. (It is known only that the voyage was performed) ------ ex Recapitulation of the Discoveries, - cxj;i Preliminaries of the Voyage of Captain Marchand, - _ Cxix Of various objects which the Author has had in view in publishing this Voyage. ---... cxxi MARCHAND's VOYAGE.

Chapter I

Departure from Marseilles. — Put into Port Praya in the Island of St. Jago. — Double Cape Horn. — Touch at the Marquesas de Mendoca. Occurrences in the Bay of La Madre de Dios in the I/land of Santa Christina or Wahitaho. — Trade with the natives. - CONTENTS GHAPTER II. Page General Description ofthe Marquesas de Mendoca, and a particular one of the Island ©/"Santa Christina, or Wahitaho, taken from the accounts ofthe Spaniards, English, and French. — Description of the BayofLu Madre de Dios. — Soil, productions, animals, and climate of the island. — Description of the inhabitants ; their persons, dress, and ornaments ; their food, in~ dusty, manners, character, customs, exercises, &c. — Idea of their government. — Presumed population of the five islands of the group. — Vocabulary of Wahitaho.—- The natives of this island compared to those of Taheitee. 55

Chapter III

From the anchorage in the Bay of La Madre de Dios is perceived, to the west north-weft and north-west by west, a land which is not laid down on the hydrographical charts. — Captain Marchand fleers for this land ; he discovers a new group of islands which forms but one archipelago with the Marquesas de Mendoga. — Description of this group. — Particular description of the principal island and its inhabitants. — Conjecture respecting other islands which must be situated to the westward of this group. — The inhabitants of the Society Istands, before the modern navigators had penetrated into thc Great Ocean, had a knowledge of the group ofthe Marquesas de Mendoga, and of the istands which Captain Marchand discovered. — Opinion concerning the existence of another land to leeward of these istands. — Run from the newly-discovered istands to coast of America. *43

Chapter IV

The Solide put into Dixon's Norfolk Sound, which is the Baya de Guadalupa ofthe Spaniards. — Transactions and events during her fay in this bay, called bythe natives Tchinkitanay. — Traffic for furs. — Description ofthe bay and its environs. — Terrestrial productions, and animals. — Description if page 189 259 336 CONTENTS of the natives and their dresses.— Population ofthe bay.-— Its inhabitants are acquainted with iron and copper. — Their aris, their industry, their weapons, their tools, their canoes, their habitations, &c. — They appear to pave some idea of a Supreme Being. — What opinion may be formed of their government. — Their skill in barter. — Their taste for singing. — Their man ners, their customs, their character. — Vocabulary of the language of Tchin kitanay. -

Chapter V

Departure from Tchinkitanay.-— Examination of Cloak Bay, of Cox'j Strait, and of part of the west coast of the istands named by the English Queen Charlottes Istands, and previousty discovered by La Perouse.— Discovery of three good harbours on this coast.— Trade for furs. — Description of these stands and of their inhabitants. — Arrival offN ootka So und.-— Captain Marchand relinquishes the project of anchoring there, and shapes his course for China. ...