Chapter 5

The Separation.--Deception Isle.--The Gulf of Penas.--Island of Chiloe.--Juan Fernandez.--Alexander Selkirk.--The Ladies of Lima.--The Peruvians.--Columbia.--Catching Wild Fowl.--The Two Oceans.--A Singular Funeral.--Magellan.--Guatemala.--Ladies Smoking.--Christian Indians.--California.--San Francisco.--Nootka Sound.--Story of Boone and the Bear.--Cleaveland and the Infant. --United States' Navy.--Cannibals.--Kamschatka.--Polynesia.--The Sandwich Islands.--Captain Cook.--Contest.--Adventure of Kapiolani.--A Delightful Anecdote.--Spanish Missionaries.--Philippine Islands.--The Pelew Islands.--Birds of Paradise.--The Friendly Islands.--Otaheite.--The Society Islanders.--Pitcairn's Islands. --Shocking Barbarity.--Nobb's Letter.--Marquesas.--The Low Islands.--New Caledonia.--New Zealand.--The Bay of Islands.--Captain Cook's Story.--A Curious Idea.--Aranghie.--Cannibalism.--New Holland.--Story of Mr. Meredith.--Australian Barbarism.--Australian Lakes.--Van Diemen's Land.--Coral Reefs.--Story of Kemba