3-057-665 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'A View of the Endeavour's Watering-place in the Bay of Good Success', Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, c1768-c1780. An encampment by a stream with soldiers; men tend a fire and roll barrels. The people in blankets are probably Fuegians, the indigenous inhabitants. The Europeans are the crew of Captain Cook's ship the 'Endeavour'. From "A Collection of Drawings by A Buchan, S Parkinson, and JF Miller, made in the Countries visited by Capt Cook in his First Voyage, also of Prints published in Hawksworth's Voyages of Biron, Wallis, and Cook, as well as in Cook's second and third Voyages". Captain Cook's first voyage was 1768-1771, his second voyage 1772-1775, and the third voyage 1776-1780.