A Draught Plan & Section of an Amsterdam canoe, seen in the South Seas; Shewing two in the plan……

Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage published in 1777.

Plan of an outrigger canoe of Tongatapu which Cook visited 2 – 8 October 1773 and then again 26 – 29 June 1774.

‘No canoes that we have seen in these seas can bear the least Comparison with these in point of neatness and workmanship’. Cook Journals II, 848

From Cook’s, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World, performed in His Majesty’s Ships the ‘Resolution’ and ‘Adventure’, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.

References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: 1381-16, p.269
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974: 358.
Joppien, R. & Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages; Vol. I, II & III. Melbourne 1985-1987: 2.78A, ill.p.185
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967: 16245.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 90039
State Library New South Wales: RECORD IDENTIFIER 74VvMokVOlGA / 74VvMoxg6JJX