Ornaments and Weapons at the Marquesas, thus marked.

Rare c.18th engraving of artefacts from the Marquesas (Christina Island), from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s second voyage.

Cook visited the Marquesas 8 – 12 April 1774. Resolution Bay is now called Vaitahu Bay.

The first Europeans to reach the Marquesas may have been the crew members aboard the San Lesmes, a Spanish vessel that disappeared in a storm in June 1526; it was part of an expedition headed by García Jofre de Loaisa. The Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana reached them nearly 70 years later, on 21 July 1595.

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: 1381-17, p.266
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: 2.105C, ill.p.207
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967. 16245.

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