CHAPTER XLV.--Cook's Third Voyage--The Northwest Passage--Omai--His Reception at Home--The Crew forego their Grog--Discovery of the Sandwich Islands--Nootka Sound--The Natives--Cape Prince of Wales--Two Continents in Sight--Icy Cape--Return to the Sandwich Islands--Cook is deified--Interview with Tereoboo--Subsequent Difficulties--A Skirmish--Pitched Battle and Death of Cook--Recovery of a Portion of his Remains--Funeral Ceremonies--Life and Services of Cook 461 CHAPTER XLVI.--Louis XVI. and the Science of Navigation--Voyage of Lapérouse--Arrival at Easter Island--Address of the Natives--Owhyhee--Trade at Mowee--Survey of the American Coast--A Remarkable Inlet--Distressing Calamity--Sojourn at Monterey--Run across the Pacific--The Japanese Waters--Arrival at Petropaulowski--Affray at Navigators' Isles--Lapérouse arrives at Botany Bay, and is never seen again, alive or dead--Voyages made in Search of him--D'Entrecasteaux--Dillon--D'Urville--Discovery of numerous Relics of the Ships at Manicolo--Theory of the Fate of Lapérouse--Erection of a Monument to his Memory 480 CHAPTER XLVII.--The Transplantation of the Bread-Fruit Tree--The Voyage of the Bounty--A Mutiny--Bligh, the Captain, with Eighteen Men, cast adrift in the Launch--Incidents of the Voyage from Tahiti to Timor--Terrible Sufferings and a Marvellous Escape--Arrival of the Mutineers at Tahiti--Their Removal to Pitcairn's Island--Subsequent History--Voyage of Vancouver--Algerine Piracy--Burning of the Philadelphia--Proud Position of the United States 492 CHAPTER XLVIII.--Application of Steam to Navigation--Robert Fulton--Chancellor Livingston--Launch of the Clermont--She crosses the Hudson River--Her Voyage to Albany--Description of the Scene--Fulton's own Account--Legislative Protection granted to Fulton--The Pendulum-Engine--Construction of other Steamboats--The Steam-Frigate Fulton the First--The First Ocean-Steamer, the Savannah--Account of her Voyage--Misapprehensions upon the Subject 508 SECTION VI. FROM THE APPLICATION OF STEAM TO NAVIGATION TO THE LAYING OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE: 1807-1858. CHAPTER XLIX.--Arctic Explorations--Russian Researches under Krusenstern and Kotzebue--Freycinet--Ross--The Crimson Cliffs--Lancaster Sound--Buchan and Franklin--Parry--The Polar Sea--Winter Quarters--Return Home--Duperrey--Episodes in the Whale-Fishery--Parry's Polar Voyage--Boat-Sledges--Method of Travel--Disheartening Discovery--82° 43' North 519