A

GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.


BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.


ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XI.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. XI


PART II. BOOK IV. CONTINUED.

CHAP.

XII.(Continued.)

Voyage round the World, by Captain George Shelvocke, in 1719-1722, 1

SECT.

V. Voyage from California to Canton in China, 1

VI. Residence in China, and Voyage thence to

England, 11

VII. Supplement to the foregoing Voyage, 17

VIII. Appendix to Shelvocke's Voyage round the

World. Containing Observations on the

Country and Inhabitants of Peru, by Captain

Betagh, 20

Introduction, 20

§ 1. Particulars of the Capture of the Mercury

by the Spaniards, 21

§ 2. Observations made by Betagh in the

North of Peru, 23

§ 3. Voyage from Payta to Lima, and Account

of the English Prisoners at that

Place, 27

§ 4. Description of Lima, and some Account

of the Government of Peru, 30

§ 5. Some Account of the Mines of Peru and

Chili, 37

§ 6. Observations on the Trade of Chili, 47

§ 7. Some Account of the French Interlopers

in Chili, 55

§ 8. Return of Betagh to England, 62

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XIII. Voyage round the World, by Commodore Roggewein, in 1721-1723 65

Introduction 65

SECT.

I. Narrative of the Voyage from Holland to the Coast of Brazil, 71

II. Arrival in Brazil, with some Account of that Country, 75

III. Incidents during the Voyage from Brazil to Juan Fernandez, with a

Description of that Island, 82

IV. Continuation of the Voyage from Juan Fernandez till the Shipwreck of

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