was voted to him by the same learned body. He was also appointed a post-captain, and promoted to a valuable situation in Greenwich hospital. As the narrative of the former voyage had not given satisfaction, the history of the second was drawn almost wholly from the captain’s journals, and digested by Dr. Douglas, late bishop of Salisbury. But the labours of Cook were not to end here. In July 1776 he sailed again, to decide the long agitated question of a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. In this voyage he had two ships, the Resolution and the Discovery; but after sailing as high as 74° 44ʹ N. the object was considered impracticable; and on Nov. 26. 1778, the ships arrived at the Sandwich islands. Here at first they were well received, but at length the people of Owhyhee stole one of the boats, to recover which Captain Cook went on shore, with the intention of getting into his possession the person of the king; but in doing this a crowd assembled, and the brave commander fell by a club, after which he was dispatched by a dagger; and his body was carried off in triumph and devoured. This melancholy event occurred in the morning of the 14th February, 1779. Captain Cook left a widow and family; on the former a pension of 200_l._ a year was settled by the king, and 25_l._ a-year on each of the children. CONTENTS OF _THE FIRST VOLUME._ -------------- FIRST VOYAGE. Page INTRODUCTION to the first Voyage 3 BOOK I. CHAP. I. The Passage from Plymouth to Madeira, with some Account of that 7 Island CHAP. II. The Passage from Madeira to Rio de Janeiro, with some Account of 18 the Country, and the Incidents that happened there CHAP. III. The Passage from Rio de Janeiro to the Entrance of the Strait of 44 Le Maire, with a Description of some of the Inhabitants of Terra del Fuego CHAP. IV. An Account of what happened in ascending a Mountain to search for 51 Plants CHAP. V. The Passage through the Strait of Le Maire, and a further 59 Description of the Inhabitants of Terra del Fuego, and its Productions CHAP. VI. A general Description of the south-east Part of Terra del Fuego, 67 and the Strait of Le Maire; with some Remarks on Lord Anson’s Account of them, and Directions for the Passage westward, round this Part of America, into the South Seas CHAP. VII.