A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels | Page 3

Robert Kerr
Anchor. Visited by the Natives.
Their Behaviour. Fondness for Beads and Iron. Attempt to plunder the
Discovery. Resolution's Leak stopped; Progress up the Sound. Messrs
Gore and Roberts sent to examine its Extent. Reasons against a Passage
to the North through it. The Ships proceed down it to the open Sea 260
V. The Inlet called Prince William's Sound. Its Extent. Persons of the
Inhabitants described. Their Dress. Incision of the Under-lip. Various
other Ornaments. Their Boats. Weapons. Fishing and hunting
Instruments. Utensils. Tools. Uses Iron is applied to. Food. Language,
and a Specimen of it. Animals. Birds. Fish. Iron and Beads, whence
received, 279
VI. Progress along the Coast. Cape Elizabeth. Cape St Hermogenes.
Accounts of Beering's Voyage very defective. Point Banks. Cape
Douglas. Cape Bede. Mount St Augustin. Hopes of finding a Passage
up an Inlet. The Ships proceed up it. Indubitable Marks of its being a
River. Named Cook's River. The Ships return down it. Various Visits
from the Natives. Lieutenant King lands, and takes Possession of the
Country. His Report. The Resolution runs aground on a Shoal.
Reflections on the Discovery of Cook's River. The considerable Tides
in it accounted for, 291
VII. Discoveries after leaving Cook's River. Island of St Hermogenes.
Cape Whitsunday. Cape Greville. Cape Barnabas. Two-headed Point.
Trinity Island. Beering's Foggy Island. A beautiful Bird described.
Kodiak and the Schumagin Islands. A Russian Letter brought on Board
by a Native. Conjectures about it. Rock Point. Halibut Island. A
Volcano Mountain. Providential Escape. Arrival of the Ships at
Oonalaschka. Intercourse with the Natives there. Another Russian
Letter. Samganoodha Harbour described, 306
VIII. Progress Northward, after leaving Oonalashka. The Islands
Oonella and Acootan. Ooneemak. Shallowness of the Water along the
Coast. Bristol Bay. Round Island. Calm Point. Cape Newenham.

Lieutenant Williamson lands, and his Report. Bristol Bay, and its
Extent. The Ships obliged to return on account of Shoals. Natives come
off to the Ships. Death of Mr Anderson; his Character; 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. Stæhlin'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 Islands, discovered.
Intercourse with the Natives. Visit from Terreeoboo. Another Island,
called Owhyhee, discovered. The Ships ply to Windward to get round it.
An Eclipse of the Moon observed. The Crew refuse to drink Sugar-cane
Beer. Cordage deficient
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