1774 Cook & Hawkesworth Antique Atlas of Australia, New Zealand 52 Maps & Prints Egypt the theory of Lake Chimmay the theory of Lake Chimmay was ultimately disproved and it disappeared from maps entirely by the 1760s La Boussole and L Astrolabe (Commandant de Langle) great and small chiefs and common men are firmly of opinion that if they can once get possession of an thing it immediately becomes their own…the chiefs employd in stealing what they could in the cabbin while their dependents took every thing that was loose about the ship… At Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) Cooks men went ashore and met the local people whom Cook thought perhaps as miserable a set of People as are this day upon Earth