The Landing of Captn. Cook, and c. at Mallicolo, one of the New Hebriedes.

Title

The Landing of Captn. Cook, and c. at Mallicolo, one of the New Hebriedes.

Description

View showing the landing of Captain Cook and his crew at Mallicolo, one of the New Hybrids. Captain Cook's second voyage to the South Pole and around the world. Undertook and performed by His Majesty's Commission, in His Majesty's ships "The Resolution and Discovery," April 1772 to July 1775. Published in George William Anderson's "A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages around the World" and edited by Alex Hogg in 1784.

ca. 1784

Artist

Hogg (1778-1824)

Alexander Hogg (1778-1824) was a publisher of books, maps and prints. He was active in London and worked under the sign of the Kings Arms in Paternoster Row. He became known for his publications of James Cook's voyages of discovery.

Historical Description

New Hebrides was the colonial name for the group of islands in the South Pacific now Vanuatu. Native people had inhabited the islands for three thousand years before the first Europeans arrived in 1606 from a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. The islands were colonized by both the British and the French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook's visit, and the two countries eventually signed an agreement that turned the islands into an Anglo-French housing estate that would include the New Hebrides in divided into two separate communities: one Anglophone and one Francophone. This gap continued after independence, with schools teaching in either one language or the other and with different political parties.