Excerpt from Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, Under the Direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N: To Which Is Added the Journal of Professor Smith, Some General Observations on the Country and Its Inhabitants, and an Appendix, Containing the Natural History of That Part of the Kingdom of Congo Through Which the Zaire Flows Of the north-west coast of New Holland, which have not hitherto been visited since the time of Dampier - and in Obtaining more distinct and accurate information of those great Archipelagos of islands, and those innumerable reefs and islets, which are scattered over the northern and southern Pacific oceans, and the Indian and Chinese seas, many hundreds of which were but the other day discovered, in one spot, by the Alceste, on her late voyage up the Yel low Sea, where not a single island had been even suspected to exist - and, to come nearer home, in filling up and correcting those imperfect and erroneous surveys of our own coasts, and of the seas that surround them - and lastly, in ascertaining with more precision, the extent, direction, and velocity, in different parts and at different seasons Of the year, of that extraordinary current known by the name of the Gulf Stream, by which all the currents of the northern Atlantic are more or less influenced. These are objects of general concern in which all Europe and Ame rica are equally interested. 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.