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A P P E N D I X .
C O N T A I N I N G
An Account of C A P T A I N C O O K E ’s fecond
Voyage in his Majefty’s Ship the RESOLUTION.
N t*le 13**1 ° f Ju'y> 1772. Captain Cooke, in the Refolution, in v °yaSei
syS O *V* comPany w!th Captain Furneaux, in the Adventure, failed from P' 5‘
P1ymouth ®oun<*> having received the following inftruitions for
K § S § § j f the regulation of his voyage: To make the bell of his way to p' *•
the liland of Madeira, there to take in a fupply of wine, and then to proceed
to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was to refreih the ihips companies, and
take on board fuch provifions and neceifaries as he might iland in need o f;
thence to proceed to the fouthward, and endeavour to fall in with Cape Cir-
cumciiion, which was faid by Monfieur Bouvet, a French navigator, who Intr0(i-
explored thofe regions in the year 1738, to lie in latitude 54” fouth, and P' ' ’
about 11° to’ eaft longitude from Greenwich. I f he difcovered this cape, he p' *'
was .to fatisfy himfelf whether it was a part of the continent, or of an ¡Hand.
Should it prove to be the former, he was to explore as great an extent o f it as
he could, making fuch obfervations of every kind as might be ufeful either to.
navigation or commerce, or tend to the promotion of natural knowledge. He
was alfo direfted to obferve the genius, temper, difpofition, and number of the
inhabitants, if there were any, and endeavour to cultivate a frierldlhip and
alliance with them. In this lervice, and in making difcoveriel, he was to continue
to employ himfelf, either to the eaftward or weftward, as his fttiiation
p f might