Man upon the sea - or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time (1858) (14760545286)

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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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unable to obtain provisions; and, as his crew werenow suffering from famine, he returned to New Zealand, wherehe arrived on the 18th of October. He left again on the 10thof November, and anchored on the 21st of December in Christ-mas Sound, in Terra del Fuego. He doubled Cape Horn, dis-covered numerous islands of little importance, and finally headedthe vessel for the Cape of Good Hope. He anchored in TableBay on the 19th of March, 1775. He here found news of theAdventure, which had already passed the Cape on her wayhome. On the 30th of July, Cook landed at Plymouth, awran absence of three years and eighteen days. During this spaceof time he had lost but four men, and only one of these four bysickness. He was promoted to the rank of captain, was electeda member of the Royal Society of London, and received theGodfrey Copley gold medal in testimony of the appreciation inwhich his efforts to preserve the health of his crew were held bythe Government. He was now forty-seven years of age.
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COOKS THIRD VOYAGE—THE NORTHW ASSAGE—OMAI—HIS RECEPTION AT HOME—THE CREW FOREGO THEIR GROG—DISCOVERY OF THE SANDWICH ISL^U)S—NOOTKA SOUND—THE NATIVES—CAPE PRINCE OF WALES—TWO CONtIBRNTS IN SIGHT ICY CAPE RETURN TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS-COOK IS DEIFIED INTERVIEW WITH TEREOBOO—SUBSEQUENT DIFFICULTIES—X SKIRMISH PITCHED BATTLE AND DEATH OF COOK RECOVERY OF A PORTION OF HIS REMAINS FUNERAL CEREMONIES LIFE AND SERVICES OF oBKc. K Cook might justly have retired at this period to private life,to enjoy his well-earned reputation. But the grand questionof the Northwest Passage, now agitated by the press and th%public, induced him once more to tempt the perils of foreignadventure. As every effort to force a passage through Baffinsor Hudsons Bajf had signally failed, it was determined tomake the experiment through Behrings Straits. On the 9th 441 442 MAN #PON THE SEA. of February, 1776, Cook received the command of the sloop-ofwar Resolution,—the vessel in which he had mad