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RESPECT.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

Page.

INTRODUCTION 1

VOYAGE TO BRAZIL 5

RIO-JANEIRO 27

DOUBLING OF CAPE HORN, AND RESIDENCE IN CHILI 57

THE DANGEROUS ARCHIPELAGO 101

O TAHAITI 119

PITCAIRN ISLAND 225

NAVIGATORS' ISLANDS 251

RADACK ISLANDS 289

LIST OF PLATES.

Page.

Reception of Captain Kotzebue at the Island of Otdia,
To face Title of Vol. I.

Plan of Mattaway Bay and Village 200

Chart of the Navigators' Islands 250

Chart of the Islands of Radak and Ralik 288

Nomahanna, Queen of the Sandwich Islands,
To face Title of Vol. II.

INTRODUCTION.

In the month of March of the year 1823, I was appointed by his Imperial
Majesty Alexander the First, of glorious memory, to the command of a
ship, at that time unfinished, but named the Predpriatie (the
Enterprise). She had been at first destined for a voyage purely
scientific, but circumstances having occurred which rendered it
necessary to change the object of the expedition, I was ordered to take
in at Kronstadt a cargo to Kamtschatka, and to sail from the latter
place to the north-west coast of America, in order to protect the
Russian American Company from the smuggling carried on there by foreign
traders. On this station my ship was to remain for one year, and then,
being relieved by another, to return to Kronstadt. The course to be
followed, both in going and returning, was left entirely to my own
discretion.

On the first of May, the ship, whose Russian name, Predpriatie, I shall
for the future omit, was declared complete. She was the first vessel
built in Russia under a roof, (a very excellent plan,) was the size of a
frigate of a middling rank, and, that she might not be unnecessarily
burdened, was