“A View of Snug Corner Cove in Prince William Sound”: This engraving from Captain Cook’s journal of his 3rd voyage depicts a cove in Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska in the southern portion of Alaska.
Cook explored this region in 1778. The scene depicts Cook’s ships Resolution and the Discovery anchored in the shadow of a steep mountain rising from the sea. Men in two long boats are seen in the foreground on the left and many local people are also present in their canoes. Cook initially named this body of water Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. Later that year, the name was changed to Prince William Sound to honor King George III's third son Prince William Henry. It seems fair since the Earl of Sandwich kept his name on the Hawaiian Islands for 62 years from 1778 to 1840, when the name was changed to Hawaii.
The Richard & Leslie Breiman Collection.
