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His companion Carteret, after having suffered many misfortunes in the South Sea, and lost almost all his crew, came to Macassar in March 1768, to Batavia the 15th of September, and to the Cape of Good Hope towards the end of December. It will appear in the sequel, that I overtook him on the 18th of February, 1769, in 11° north latitude. He arrived in England in June.
It appears, that of these thirteen voyages which have been made round the world[1], none belongs to the
French
- ↑ Dom Pernetty, in his Dissertation upon America, speaks of a voyage round the world, in 1719 by captain Shelvock; I have no knowledge of this voyage. Note of Mr. de B.
As M. de Bougainville's list of circumnavigators is very imperfect, we will endeavour to give a more compleat one in few words.
1. Fernando Magalhaens, 1519.
2. Sir Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth the 15th of November, 1577, but was obliged to put back on account of a storm; after which, he set sail again the 3th of December, and returned the 16th of September, 1580.
3. Thomas Cavendish, 1586—88.
4. Simon de Cordes, a Dutchman, sailed in 1598—1600,
5. Oliver Van Noort sailed the 13th of September, 1598, and returned the 22d of August, 1601.
6. George Spielbergen, a German in the Dutch service, 1614—1617.
7. William Cornelius Schouten with Jacob Le Maire, 1615—1627.
8. Jacob l'Hermite with John Hugo Schapenham sailed from Goeree, in the province of Holland, the 29th of April, 1623, and arrived in the Texel the 9th of July, 1626.
9. Henry Brouwer, a Dutchman, in 1643.
10. Cowley, in 1683—1686.
11. William Dampier, an Englishman, sailed in 1689, and returned 1691. He has been omitted by M. de Bougainville in the list of circumnavigators, because he did not go round the world in one and the same ship.
12. Beauchesne Gouin, in 1699.
13. Edward Cooke, an Englishman, made the voyage in the years 1708 and 1711.
14. Woodes
