A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1

Chapter 12: FOOTNOTES:

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A naval captain narrates a multi-year circumnavigation undertaken under imperial orders that blends scientific observation with practical maritime duty. He details the ship, crew, and embarked naturalists and astronomers, the precision instruments carried, and the sailing challenges encountered from violent storms to rounding Cape Horn. The narrative follows stops in Brazil and Chile and extended visits among Pacific island groups including Tahiti, Pitcairn, the Navigators' Islands, and the Radack and Ralik chains, supplying charts, plans, and accounts of local receptions. Natural history, astronomical and geodetic measurements, ethnographic encounters, and everyday shipboard life are interwoven with navigational details and practical observations.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Namely English miles, of which sixty go to a degree, and four to a German mile. Whenever, in this Voyage, miles are mentioned, English miles are to be understood.

[2] The longitude is always calculated from Greenwich, in this work.

[3] "Formidable is man in his misguided zeal."

[4] The measurement given is two Russian wersts, of which one hundred and four and a half make a degree, or, as nearly as possible, one and a half make an English mile. The exact circumference therefore of the lake, as given, is one mile and one third.

[5] Upon the maps, Lioné and Fanfouné; the termination in h denotes, in the Polynesian language, the accent upon the last syllable; as in the Tahaitian name Pomareh.

[6] This group must not be confounded with Otdia where we were at this time.