Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe, and of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean: From the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook The object of the present. Work is to give a com prehensive history of the various circumnavigations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.