Captain Cook's three voyages round the world [abridged] with a sketch of his life, ed. by C.R. Low1882 |
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afternoon amongst anchor appeared armed arrived ashore attended Banks Batavia beach began boats Bolabola bread-fruit brought called canoes Cape Cape Elizabeth Cape Horn Captain Clerke Captain Cook chief cloth coast cocoa-nuts command continued countrymen crew discovered Discovery distance east Endeavour fathoms feet fired fish fresh friends gave gentlemen harbour head hogs Hugh Palliser Indians inhabitants island isle James Cook king land latitude leagues leave lieutenant manner marines miles morai morning musket natives navigation night northward o'clock observed officers Omai Oreo Otaheite Otoo Palmerston Island party piece pinnace plantains present received Resolution returned round sail seemed seen sent ship ship's shore side Society Islands Solander soon stones stood Straits Straits of Magellan Terreeoboo told took trees Tupia Van Diemen's Land voyage weather whole wind women wood Zealand
Popular passages
Page 322 - In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything they could lay their hands on.
Page 406 - ... enterprise, his death, as far as regards himself, cannot be reckoned premature, since he lived to finish the great work for which he seems to have been designed, and was rather removed from the enjoyment, than cut off from the acquisition of glory. How sincerely his loss was felt and lamented by those who had so long found their general security in his skill and conduct, and every consolation, under their hardships, in his tenderness and humanity, it is neither necessary nor possible for me to...
Page 179 - ... birds, or any other animals, than the ice itself, with which it must be wholly covered. I, who had ambition not only to go farther than any one had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go, was not sorry at meeting with this interruption ; as it, in some measure, relieved us ; at least, shortened the dangers and hardships inseparable from the navigation of the southern polar regions.
Page 231 - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's * fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared!) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars.
Page 236 - Bay ; and if from your own observations, or from any information you may receive from the natives (who there is reason to believe are the same race of people and speak the same language, of which you are furnished with a vocabulary, as the...
Page 234 - Whereas the Earl of Sandwich has signified to us his Majesty's pleasure, that an attempt should be made to find out a Northern passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 378 - The ships continued to be much crowded with natives, and were surrounded by a multitude of canoes. I had nowhere, in the course of my voyages, seen so numerous a body of people assembled in one place.
Page 222 - But, whatever may be the public judgment about other matters, it is with real satisfaction, and without claiming any merit but that of attention to my duty, that I can conclude this account with an observation, which facts enable me to make; that our having discovered the possibility of preserving health amongst a numerous ship's company, for such a length of time, in such varieties of climate, and amidst such continued hardships and fatigues, will...
Page 404 - The natives, who were collecting in prodigious numbers along the shore, and had probably been alarmed by the firing of the great guns, and the appearances of hostility in the bay, began to throng round Captain Cook and their king.
Page 333 - But the most extraordinary of all the articles which they brought to the ships for sale, were human skulls, and hands not yet quite stripped of the flesh, which they made our people plainly understand they had eaten; and, indeed, some of them had evident marks that they had been upon the fire.