Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara

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Karl von Scherzer. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara

Table of Contents

Volume 1

PHYSICAL AND GEOGNOSTIC SUGGESTIONS

DEPARTURE. I

Preparations for the Voyage

LOOK-OUT MAN. II

From Trieste to Gibraltar

ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. III

Gibraltar

SCENE IN MADEIRA. IV

Madeira

THE QUAY AT RIO. V

Rio de Janeiro

CAPE TOWN. VI

Cape of Good Hope

VIEW OF ST. PAUL. VII

The Islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam,

VIEW OF ADAM'S PEAK FROM COLOMBO. VIII

Ceylon

VIEW OF MADRAS (AND PROPOSED PIER) IX

Madras

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

Volume 2

X

MEMORANDUM

FOOTNOTES:

A Forest Scene in Singapore. XI

Singapore

FOOTNOTES:

Javanese Weapons. XII

Java

FOOTNOTES:

View from the Battlements at Manila. XIII

Manila

FOOTNOTES:

Life in Hong-kong. XIV

Hong-kong

FOOTNOTES:

Flower Boat on the Wusung at Shanghai. XV

Shanghai

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Distant View of the Island of Puynipet. XVI

The Island of Puynipet

FOOTNOTES:

Barrier Reef and Atoll of Sikayana. XVII

The Coral Island of Sikayana

FOOTNOTES:

Volume 3

XVIII

Sydney

FOOTNOTES:

Maori. XIX

Auckland

FOOTNOTES:

Native Fête to the Governor. XX

Tahiti

FOOTNOTES:

The Lasso. XXI

Valparaiso

FOOTNOTES:

Station on the Panama Railway. XXII

An Overland Journey from Valparaiso to Gibraltar, viâ the Isthmus of Panama

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The Austrian Eagle. XXIII

From Gibraltar to Trieste

VOL. II. APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C. (p. 399.)

APPENDIX D. (pp. 539–548)

VOL. III. APPENDIX I (p. 13.)

APPENDIX II (p. 131.)

APPENDIX III (p. 172.)

APPENDIX IV (p. 172.)

APPENDIX V (p. 188.)

APPENDIX VI (p. 193.)

APPENDIX VII

FOOTNOTES:

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Karl von Scherzer

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I would also, with all deference, suggest observations regarding the daily atmospheric variations or tides, so as to obtain tables of maxima and minima. In order to obtain these, whenever the frigate is at anchor near any coast, but particularly within the tropics, hourly observations with the barometer and thermometer (the latter affixed to the barometer, and also freely suspended in the open air), should be made through several consecutive days and nights. During the occurrence of an Aurora Borealis (or Australis), attention should be paid to the perturbations of the magnetic variation, and the magnetic intensity of the horizontal needle. Boreal Auroras have been seen in the southern latitudes of the Peruvian Pacific, as low down as 12° 13′ S.; but the occurrence of such phenomena there is of much less frequent occurrence than that of Austral Auroras in Scotland. It is important to keep an exact register of the intensity of blackness in the "coalbags," when the smallest stars surrounding them are still visible to the naked eye. The daily meteorological observations, as also those on the temperature of the sea, will probably be made on board ship, in conformity with the views of Lieutenant Maury, and the method agreed upon at the last nautical congress.

As I shall have long ceased to be numbered with the living, when the Novara returns to Trieste, richly freighted with scientific treasures of all kinds, with fresh information relating to organic and inorganic nature, to the races of man, their habits and languages, I now pray to Almighty God that His blessing may rest upon this great and noble enterprise, to the honour of our common German Fatherland! And concluding, in this night, these oblique, illegible lines, I remember, not without emotion, and with very mingled feelings, that joyous period of my life when, fifty-eight years ago, in the beautiful gardens of Schönbrunn, preparing myself for a long journey, I was enjoying with grateful mind the friendly kindness of the venerable Jacquin and Peter Frank.

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