Excerpt from Voyages of Discoveries Round the World, Vol. 1 of 3: Successively Undertaken by the Hon. Commodore Byron, in 1764; Captains Wallis and Carteret, in 1766; And Captain Cook, in the Years 1768 to 1780 Inclusive They got again under sail August 2, with-a lange cargo of fowls, lean goats, and monkeys, which the people contrived to procure for old shirts, jackets, and other articles ofthe hke kind. The intolerable heat and almost incessant rain very soon affected their health, and the men began to falldown in fevers, notwithstanding all the commodore's attention and diligence to make them shift themselves before they slept, when they were wet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.