The New York herald., 1879-02-14

second expedition destined to solve the problem
the Terra Australs Incognita. His journal aud the
papers of Mr. Banks placed IN the hands OF DIR.
John Hawkesworth, who, in 1878. published three
quarto volumes. of which the first contained the
and third that Of Cook. These volumes were mag
nifcently illustrated with charts and plates at the
expense Of the Admiralty.
On July 13, lII2. Captain Cook sailed from Plym-
outh with two vessels. the Resolution and the Ad-
venture. the latter under tlfe command OF Captain
Tobias Furneaux They were instructed TO circum-
navigate the globe in high southern latitudes and to
penetrate as near to the South Pole as possible IN
order TO settle eectuay the vexed question OF the
Southern Continent. The two vessels quilted the
Cape OF Good Hope in November. trayersed the
OF sight of land and after being separated for months
met on the coast of New Zealand in May For
the next year Cook and Furneaux were engaged
in repeated attempts to reach the Southern Pole and
they explored nearly all the principal groups OF
islands in the South Pacific. Cook discovered the
largest island in the Pacific except New Zealand and
named it New Caledonia. On his return he explored
the south or Cape Horn and continued eastward
to the meridian of Cape Hope. completing the cren-
navigation OF the globe i'll high southern iattudes
aud proving that no vast antarctic continent could
exist He reached Cape Town in March. l.'o;
10000 leagues without the loss of mast or yard.
He was elected member of the Royal Society Feb
ruary. 1776 and the Copley Medal was adjudged to
him for the best experimental paper OF that year.
being an account of the sanitary measures he en-
ployed at sea- On his return Cook had been made
post captain and appointed Captain of Greenwich
Hospital He published the journal of his second voy
age written in IN unpreending but clear and sensi-
bic STYLE in two quarto volumes. but without wait
ing for their appearance offered his services for
third expedition. with the object of determining the
problem OF q northwest passage.
LAST VOYAGE
Captain Cook sailed from Plymouth on his third
and final voyage July IL, l776 His flag was carried
by the Resolution. and he was accompanied by the
Discovery, commanded by Captain Charles Clerke.
We have not space to detail his renewed visits to the
islands of the South Pacific. which occupied him u
year and was usefully employed in disseminating
therein a variety OF domestic animals carried from
Europe and the Cape Of Good Hope he sailed for
Behring Strait from the Friendly Islands Decem,
ber. 1777, and on January 18. 177s. rediscovered
the Sandwich Islands, so named by him.
though they had been visited century be-
fore BY spanish navigators. He reached Nootka
ward, discovering Cooks Inlet, sailing to Behring
Strait and reaching his extreme northern point, Icy
Cape, August IL. 1778 Here he was stopped by an
impossible wall Of ice. He returned southwark in
September to winter in the Sandwich Islands. and
to explore the coasts of the two largest of
the group, Maui and Hawaii.
KILLED SAvAGEs.
It was on the coast of the latter that one of his
boats stolen on the night OF February Is, 1779
and on the following morning, going ashore with
lieutenant and nine men, with the intention or seiz
he became involved in q quarrel and was killed
with four of his men. His remains were treated
with indignity. and only the bones were subse-
Quently recovered and buried in the sea. moDu-
ment now stands upon the spot, and his memory IL
held in great esteem by the citizens OF the present
civilized Hawaiian Kingdom. The vessels of Cook 8
expedition reached England, by way of China and
the Cape of Good Hope, in October, 1850. His ac-
count OF the voyage completed by Lieutenant
King. and published in three quarto volumes in
17S4-5. Cook left widow, VINO received life PEN
sion Of fa9O and each of his six children received
f25 Many compends Of his voyages have since been
published. but areally good work upon his romantic
remains to be written in the light of modern
geographical and ethnographical science