The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

CHAPTER XXVI.

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What had Cook's Predecessors left him to discover?--His first Voyage. --Discovery of the Society Islands, and of the East Coast of New Holland.--His second Voyage.--Discovery of the Hervey Group. --Researches in the South Sea.--The New Hebrides.--Discovery of New Caledonia and of South Georgia.--His third Voyage.--The Sandwich Islands.--New Albion.--West Georgia.--Cook's Murder.--Vancouver. --La Peyrouse 485