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Sixty-five original watercolor drawings from George Vancouver's voyage on the sloop "Discovery" (ship). Included are some of the earliest pictorial records of locations on the Pacific Coast of North America (Central America, Mexico, Northern California, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska), as well as scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific (Tahiti, Galapagos, New Zealand, and Australia). The drawings were executed primarily by John Sykes, with several by William Humphries (or Humphreys), and a small group with authorship not indicated.

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