Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages

Project Gutenberg's Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Author: Anonymous Release Date: June 23, 2008 [EBook #25882] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAMOUS ISLANDS *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Castaways. Front. FAMOUS ISLANDS AND MEMORABLE VOYAGES. Boston: Published by D. Lothrop & Co. Dover, N.H.: G. T. Day & Co. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.— A VENETIAN CRUISER. 9 II.— A WINTER IN THE NORTHERN SEAS; OR, CAPTAIN JAMES'S JOURNAL. 30 III.— THE DISCOVERERS OF MADEIRA. 52 IV.— ST. HELENA. 68 V.— THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS. 87 VI.— NORFOLK ISLAND. 118 VII.— THE SOLITARY ISLANDER. 165 VIII.— CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE. 188 9 A VENETIAN CRUISER. It was late in the year 1431. The port of Venice was filled with ships from all parts of the world, bringing to her their choicest stores, and their most costly merchandise, and receiving from her and from her Grecian possessions rich shiploads of wine and spices, and bales of finest cotton.