1787 Bankes Antique Print View of Nomuka Island, Tonga - Cooks Voyages in 1777 Europe Before leaving the Benedictines Prévost

Before leaving the Benedictines Prévost had begun perhaps his most famous novel

the crew is struck by a violent epidemic

but soon tired of military life

Scamander was the name of a river god in Greek mythology

filling the North Sea

1787 Bankes Antique Print View of Nomuka Island, Tonga - Cooks Voyages in 1777 Europe Before leaving the Benedictines PrévostTitle : View in Anamooka and the Inhabitants Size: 14in x 9in (355mm x 230mm) Ref #: 40224 Date : 1787 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original cooper plate engraved antique print of a view of the Island of Nomuka, a small island in the southern part of the Ha apai islands, in the Kingdom of Tonga, during Captain Cooks 3rd Voyage of discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New, Royal