LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

REPRODUCED IN FAC-SIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,
GIVING THE SOURCES WHENCE THEY ARE DERIVED.


PART THE FIRST.

[Hoisting the signals for triangulation]

[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis]

[Selkirk falling over the precipice with his prey]

["I plunged my pike into his breast"]

[Fight between the Centurion and a Spanish galleon]

["The council chose the latter alternative"]

["Most of them on horseback"]

["One of them tore the carrion with his teeth"]

["They made a thousand grimaces"]

[The natives waving palm-leaves as a sign of welcome]

[Head-dresses of natives of Otahiti]

["Pursued by the arrows of the natives"]

[A struggle between the Swallow and a Malay prah]

[Portrait of Bougainville]

["We made them sing"]

[Lancers' Island]

[Pirogue of the Marquesas Islands]

[Mdlle. Barré's adventure]

[Captain James Cook]

["They were pursued so closely"]

[Otahitian flute-player]

[A Fa-toka, New Zealand]

[Interior of a morai in Hawaii]

[Tatooed head of a New Zealander]

[An I-pah]

[A New Zealand family]

["They were kangaroos"]

[Otahitian fleet off Oparee]

["Three Indians emerged from the wood"]

[Among the icebergs]

[New Zealand war canoe]

[New Zealand utensils and weapons]

["Who passed his days in being fed by his wives"]

[O-Too, King of Otaheite]

[Monuments in Easter Island]

[Natives of Easter Island]

[Natives of the Marquesas]

[Typical natives of the Sandwich Islands]

["The natives had sufficient confidence"]

["With the roof of considerable height"]

[View of Christmas Sound]

[Kerguelen Islands]

[Fête in Cook's honour at Tonga]

[Human sacrifice at Otahiti]

[Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus]

[Cook's reception by the natives]

[Prince William's Sound]

["They gave him a little pig"]

PART THE SECOND.

[Pirogues of the Admiralty Islands]

["Picking up the enemies' weapons"]

["A lighted brand was also presented to them"]

["The only one who had escaped"]

["A man's skull was found"]

[Portrait of La Pérouse]

[Costumes of the inhabitants of Conception]

[Inhabitants of Easter Island]

[Typical natives of the Port des Français]

[Shipwreck of French boats outside the Port des Français]

["An Indian with a stag's head over his own"]

[He traced the coast of Tartary]

[Typical Orotchys]

[Portrait of D'Entrecasteaux]

["They came upon four natives"]

[Fête in honour of D'Entrecasteaux at the Friendly Islands]

[Typical native of New Holland]

[Natives of New Caledonia]

[View of the Island of Bouron]

[Native hut in Endracht Land]

[King of the Island of Timor]

[The Swan River]

["A sail was seen on the horizon"]

["The sick were carried on shore"]

[View of Sydney]

[Water-carrier at Timor]

["He received a cordial welcome"]

[The Baobab]

[Portrait of Mungo Park]

[Natives of Senegal]

[A Hottentot]

[A Bosjeman]

["Till Master Rees had given his verdict"]

[A Kaffir woman]

[Portrait of James Bruce]

["I found the monarch seated on his throne"]

[Chinese magic-lantern]

[The Emperor of China]

[The great wall of China]

[Chinese Prime Minister]

["The famous bird Leutzé"]

[Port Monterey]

[Mackenzie's first view of the North Pacific Ocean]

[Portrait of Condamine]

[Celebrated Narrows of Manseriche]

[Omagua Indians]

[Portrait of Alex. de Humboldt]

[Gigantic vegetation on the banks of the Temi]


MAPS.

[Map of France, corrected by order of the King, in accordance with the instructions of the Members of the Academy of Sciences]

[Map of the Eastern Hemisphere]

[Straits of Magellan, after Bougainville]

[Polynesia]

[Map of Queen Charlotte Islands]

[New Zealand]

[Louisiade Archipelago]

[Map of Australia, after Perron's atlas]

[Map of the east coast of New Holland, after Cook]

[Captain Cook's chart of Otaheite]

[Itinerary of the principal voyagers during the 18th century, after Cook]

[Map of Surville's discoveries, after Fleurieu]

[Island discovered by M. Marion du Fresnes in 1772, called Prince Edward's Island by Cook in 1776]

[Map of the journey of La Pérouse, after the atlas published by General Millet-Mureau]

[Map of the coast of Asia, after the map of La Pérouse's voyage]

[Map of part of North Africa]

[Map of part of Western Africa]

[Map of the Empire of China]

[Map of North-West America]

[Map of the two Americas]

[Itinerary of Humboldt's route in equinoctial America]