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THE

GREAT NAVIGATORS OF THE 18TH CENTURY.

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