[DEDICATION]
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To
Juliette Baradeux-Bendall and Beatrice Tombs
for
France and New Zealand
[FOREWORD]
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FOREWORD
Before the publication of her book, Miss Olive Wright was kind enough to allow me the opportunity of reading the text. It is with great pleasure that I testify to the interest I found in it. The pages devoted by Miss Wright to the biography of Dumont d'Urville are extremely attractive. She had as her subject a man, in every sense of the word. Endowed with the highest ideals and a rare spirit of courage, Dumont d'Urville gave proof in all the circumstances of his life of very great simplicity and intense intellectual honesty. Miss Olive Wright, who has so well understood her hero as to develop a strong sympathy for his personality, has admirably well adapted to her subject the tone of her full and authentic study, and I feel certain that all those who, like myself, will read her book, will be not only agreeably entertained, but also profoundly moved.
[Signature]
Legation de France en Nouvelle Zelande.
Minister of France Wellington.
20 February, 1950.
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[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS
Foreword..........v
Preface..........ix
Dumont d'Urville--a Biographical Sketch..........1
Title page and summary of the original work, 1835..........48, 49
The Voyage of the Astrolabe in New Zealand waters December 1826-March 1827
I Introduction..........5l
II Preparations--The Ship and the Men..........55
. . .List of names of officers of the Astrolabe.
III Passage from Port Jackson to Tasman Bay and visit to Astrolabe Bight..........6l
IV Passage from Astrolabe Bight to Houa-Houa Bay [Cook's Tolaga Bay]..........86
V Passage from Houa-Houa Bay to the departure from Wangari Bay [Whangarei]..........125
VI Exploration of Shouraki Bay [Hauraki Gulf]; Discovery of Astrolabe Channel..........151
VII In the Bay of Islands..........176
VIII Extracts from diaries of officers of the Astrolabe 1827..........204
Letter of Instructions from the Secretary to the Admiralty, Paris..........227
Appendix A. --Some French and Russian navigators and scientists..........233
Appendix B. --Some French Institutions..........239
Appendix C. --Miscellaneous..........242
Chronological Table..........246
Bibliography..........248
Index..........249
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
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ILLUSTRATIONS
* Dumont d'Urville, Portrait..........Frontispiece
Rangui of Tamaki..........xii
* Lycee Malherbe, Caen..........16
The Voyage of the Astrolabe 1826-1829 (sketch map)..........17
The Voyage to the South Pole 1837-1840 (sketch map)..........32
Pseudopanax-Lessonii (Houpara)..........33
The Astrolabe in the French Pass..........64
Village, Astrolabe Bight..........65
D'Urville's Map of New Zealand 1835..........80
Orange-wattled Crow..........81
Kahou-Wera, deserted pa, Bay of Islands..........176
Native houses..........177
Haka performed on board the Astrolabe..........192
Part of d'Urville's Chart of Hauraki Gulf..........193
* With these exceptions, the illustrations are reproductions from the Albums of the original edition of Le Voyage de l'Astrolabe. The tailpieces are reproductions of the small vignettes found in d'Urville's text, Volume II.
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