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Pecten Valoniensis. Dfr. 1/2 natural size. Portrush, Ireland, etc. Avicula contorta. Portlock. Portrush, Ireland, etc. Natural size. The principal member of this group has been called by Dr. Wright the Avicula contorta bed, as this shell is very abundant, and has a wide range in Europe.
The authority for Cook's adventures is, of course, his own journal, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London, 1784, supplemented by the letters and journals of men who were with him, like Ledyard, Vancouver, Portlock, and Dixon, and others.
Dixon had just departed from the harbor when Captain Portlock, of the English ship "King George," which was lying in Portlock Harbor, to the northward in Chichagoff Island, sent his ship's boat through the passage behind Kruzof Island to about the present site of Sitka, and made the discovery for the civilized world that Mount Edgecumbe is on an island.
In 1787 Portlock and Dixon had secured almost two thousand sea-otter skins as far north as the Queen Charlotte Islands. These were things Meares did not tell the Americans. It would have been to acknowledge that an abundance of furs was there to draw so many trading-ships. But during the winter at Nootka the men from Boston learned these facts from the Indians.
Portlock, Geology of Londonderry and Tyrone ; Sir A. Geikie, "History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the British Isles," Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 1888; and the Descriptive Memoirs of the Geological Survey relating to this tract of country.
Two years later, Portlock and Dixon sold their cargo for fifty-five thousand dollars; and when it is remembered that two hundred sea-otter twelve thousand dollars' worth at the lowest average were sometimes got from the Nootka tribes for a few dollars' worth of old chisel iron the profit can be estimated.
Captain Cook compared to former Visitors Point Hicks Botany Bay-First natives seen Indifference to Overtures Abundant flora Entrance to Port Jackson missed ENDEAVOUR on a reef Careened Strange animals Hostile natives A sailor's devil Possession Island-Territory of New South Wales Torres Straits a passage La Perouse Probable fate discovered by Captain Dillon M'Cluer touches Arnheim's Land Bligh and Portlock Wreck of the PANDORA Vancouver in the south The D'Entrecasteaux quest Recherche Archipelago Bass and Flinders Navigation and exploration extraordinary The TOM THUMB Bass explores south Flinders in the Great Bight Bass's Straits Flinders in the INVESTIGATOR Special instructions King George's Sound Lossof boat's crew Memory Cove Baudin's courtesy Port Phillip INVESTIGATOR and LADY NELSON on East Coast The Gulf of Carpentaria and early Dutch navigators Duyfhen Point Cape Keer-Weer Mythical rivers charted Difficulty in recognising their landmarks Flinders' great disappointment A rotten ship Return by way of West Coast Cape Vanderlin Dutch Charts Malay proas, Pobassoo Return to Port Jackson Wreck of the PORPOISE Prisoner by the French General de Caen Private papers and journals appropriated Prepares his charts and logs for press Death Sympathy by strangers Forgotten by Australia The fate of Bass Mysterious disappearance Supposed Death.
In 1792, the PROVIDENCE and ASSISTANT, Captains Bligh and Portlock, sailed through the Straits, conveying the bread-fruit plant from Tahiti to the West Indies. Serving in this expedition was Lieutenant Flinders. In 1791, Captain George Vancouver, on his way to America, came to the southern shore, and found and named King George's Sound.
He landed and examined the country, but saw nothing of any consequence, and, after a short stay, sailed away to the eastward, intending to follow the coast line, but was prevented by baffling winds. In 1793, previously to the INVESTIGATOR, and in the year following Bligh and Portlock, Messrs.
The Russian government had projected an expedition to the Pacific under Joseph Billings, Cook's assistant astronomer. These Russian plans aimed at no less than dominance on the Pacific. Forts were to be built in California and Hawaii. In England and India, private adventurers, Portlock, Dixon, Meares, Barclay, were fitting out ships for Pacific trade.
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