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RECEPTION OF CAPTAIN KOTZEBUE AT THE ISLAND OF OTDIA]




  A

  NEW VOYAGE

  ROUND

  THE WORLD,

  IN THE YEARS 1823, 24, 25, AND 26.


  BY OTTO VON KOTZEBUE,

  POST CAPTAIN IN THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY.


  IN TWO VOLUMES.

  VOL. I.


  LONDON:

  HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
  NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
  1830.




  LONDON:

  PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
  Dorset Street, Fleet Street.




PREFACE.


The flattering requisitions of those readers who found amusement in the
narrative of my former voyage, independently of its scientific details,
form an incentive to my present publication. All mere nautical minutiae,
which might be deemed tedious, with the exception of such as were
indispensable, have been omitted. Various contingencies have delayed the
appearance of these Volumes; but I still hope they will not have
altogether lost the charm of novelty.

With respect to my style, I rely upon the favour formerly shewn me.
Devoted from my earliest youth to the sea-service, I have had no leisure
for cultivating the art of authorship.




  TO HIS EXCELLENCY
  ADMIRAL VON KRUSENSTERN,

  THE FIRST RUSSIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATOR;

  WHOSE NAME WILL BE IMMORTALIZED BY HIS ACTIVE
  AND BENEFICIAL PATRONAGE OF THE
  NAUTICAL SCIENCE:

  TO MY PATERNAL FRIEND,

  WHOM, WHILE STILL A BOY, I ACCOMPANIED ON
  HIS CELEBRATED EXPEDITION, AND UNDER
  WHOSE AUSPICES I RECEIVED MY EARLY
  EDUCATION AS A SEAMAN;

  THESE VOLUMES
  ARE DEDICATED WITH THE MOST AFFECTIONATE
  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 provided with only twenty-four six-pounders.

My crew consisted of Lieutenants Kordinkoff, Korsakoff, Bordoschewitsch,
and Pfeifer; the Midshipmen Gekimoff, Alexander von Moller, Golowin,
Count Heiden, Tschekin, Murawieff, Wukot