Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . of the rock to die. The sandcollected and drifted about him, half burying him alive. He wouldnot suffer it to be removed, as it afforded him a grateful died in this wretched condition on the 8th of December. Thenext summer, the few of his crew who survived the winter builta vessel from the timber of the wreck: in this they reached Kam-schatka and made known the miserable fate of their commander. Though Behring settled the fact of the existence of the st
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . of the rock to die. The sandcollected and drifted about him, half burying him alive. He wouldnot suffer it to be removed, as it afforded him a grateful died in this wretched condition on the 8th of December. Thenext summer, the few of his crew who survived the winter builta vessel from the timber of the wreck: in this they reached Kam-schatka and made known the miserable fate of their commander. Though Behring settled the fact of the existence of the straitwhich bears his name, it was reserved for Captain Cook tosurvey the entire length of both coasts. This he did with aprecision and accuracy which left nothing for after-voyagers toperform, and which has made the geography of this remote andbarbarous region as familiar as that of the Atlantic shores ofAmerica. The island upon which Behring died, and which wasthen uninhabited and without a shrub upon its surface, is nowan important trading station, and affords comfortable winterquarters to vessels from Okhotsk and LORD ANSON. CHAPTER XL. PIRATICAL VOYAGE UNDER GEORGE ANSON—UNPARALLELED MORTALITY—AR-RIVAL AND SOJOURN AT JUAN FERNANDEZ—A PRIZE—CAPTURE OF PAITA—PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK THE MANILLA GALLEON DISAPPOINTMENT FOR-TUNATE ARRIVAL AT TINIAN—ROMANTIC ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND—A STORM—ANSONS SHIP DRIVEN OUT TO SEA—THE ABANDONED CREW SET ABOUT BUILDING A BOAT RETURN OF THE CENTURION BATTLE WITH THE MANILLA GALLEON—ANSONS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND—THE PROCEEDS OF THE CRUISE. The statesmen of England had now become penetrated with the idea that, in order to consolidate their territorial supremacy, they must make their country the undisputed mistress of the seas. War was declared against Spain in 1739, and the king determined to attack that power in her distant settlements and deprive her, if possible, of her possessions in America, and especially in Peru.
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