The Paradise of the Pacific the Hawaiian Islands (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Paradise of the Pacific the Hawaiian Islands Captain Cook's discovery of this group of islands was an accident. The British government, pleased with this great navigator's previous voyages of exploration in the then unknown Pacific Ocean, with the counsel and assistance of Lord Sandwich of the Admiralty, fitted him out for a third trip, placing under his command the two ships Resolu tion and Discovery. He sailed from Plymouth, England, July 12, 1776, only eight days after the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the representatives of the thirteen colonies of America. Captain Cook's orders were to revisit the islands of the southern seas, where he had twice wintered, to disseminate and naturalise some of the useful animals of Europe in that remote region, and to find a northern passage to the Atlantic Ocean. He cruised around in the Polynesian Archipelago for a year and a half, leaving on the different islands those domestic animals which have proved of such value to the inhabitants. Then he sailed from the Society Islands on his way to the north. 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.