about knee deep; and others immediately crowded upon him, and endeavored to keep him under; but, struggling very stongly with them, he got his head up, and casting his look towards the pinnance, seemed to solicit assistance. Though the boat was not above five or six yards distant from him, yet from the crowded and confused state of the crew, it seems it was not in their power to save him The Indians got him under again, but in deeper water. He was, however, able to get his head up once more; and, being almost spent in the struggle, he naturally turned to the rock, and was endeavoring to support himself by it, when a savage gave him a blow with a club, and he was seen alive no more. They hauled him up lifeless on the rocks, where they seemed to take a savage pleasure in using every possible barbarity to his dead body, snatching the daggers out of each other's hands, to have the horrid satisfaction of piercing the fallen victim of their barbarous

the natives of all the countries which were discovered by him. The health, the convenience, and, as far as it could be admitted, the enjoyment of those under his command, were the constant objects of his attention: and he was invariably anxious to ameliorate the condition of the inhabitants of the several islands and places which he visited. With regard to their thieveries, he candidly apologized for, and overlooked many offences which others would have punished; and when he felt impelled to proceed to any acts of severity, he never exerted them without reluctance and

concern.

With respect to his talents, they were undeniably of the most useful kind. He had a capacious and penetrating mind; and all his designs were accordingly bold and extensive. When these were formed, he never expressed a doubt respecting their execution; for the same perspicuity and orderly arrangement of thought which enabled him to form the designs, also enabled him to devise the most simple and effectual modes of executing them. In the execution he was equally distinguished; no difficulty perplexed, no danger appalled him. The talents and knowledge which he possessed were always completely at his command, when they were most needed. And for great designs he was also qualified by the constitution of his body, which was inured to labor, and capable of supporting the greatest fatigue and hardships. In addition to a consummate acquaintance with navigation, Captain Cook possessed a knowledge of other sciences. In this respect, the ardor of his mind rose above the disadvantages of a very confined education. His progress in the different branches of mathematics, and particularly in astronomy, became so eminent, that, at length, he was able to take the lead in making the necessary observations of this kind, in the course of his voyages. He attained, likewise, to such a degree of proficiency in general learning, and in the art of composition, as to be able to express himself with a manly clearness and propriety, and to become respectable as the narrator, as well as the performer, of great actions. Another trait, which was peculiarly conspicuous in the character of Captain Cook, was the perseverance with which he pursued the noble objects to which his life was devoted. In this he scarcely ever had an equal, and never a superior. Nothing could divert him from the points he aimed at; and he persisted in the prosecution of them, through difficulties and obstructions, which would have deterred minds even of considerable strength and firmness. In stature he is described to have been somewhat above the common size; and, though a good looking man, he was plain both in address and appearance. His head was small: his hair, which was a dark brown, he wore tied behind. His face was full of expression; his nose exceedingly well shaped; his eyes, which were small, and of a brown cast, were quick and piercing, and his eyebrows prominent; which gave to his counte.

nance altogether an air of austerity. In the year 1762 he had married an amiable and deserving woman. He had by her six children, but of these three sons only survived him. They were all brought up in the naval service. One of them was lost in a hurricane at sea, and the other two fell honorably in the cause of their country. On the widow a pension of two hundred pounds a year for her life, and on each of the sons a pension of twentyfive pounds a year was settled by the British government.

NARRATIVE OF EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED SUBSE QUENTLY TO THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

After Captain Clerke, upon whom the command of the expedi tion devolved, had left the fatal island of Owhyhee, he considered it his duty to endeavor to execute the plans of discovery that had been laid down by his lamented predecessor. He consequently coasted several others of the Sandwich Islands; and finally left them on the 15th of March, 1779. The ships now proceeded towards Kamtschatka; and, in their course, the Resolution sprung a leak so bad, that at one time the whole space between the decks was deluged with water. On the twenty-third the mountains of Kamtschatka, covered with snow, were within view. The weather was now so severe, that the ship appeared like a complete mass of ice, and the rigging was so incrusted with it, that the different ropes were more than double their usual thickness.

Two days after the discovery of Kamtschatka, whien off the entrance of Awatska Bay, the Resolution lost sight of the Discovery. The Resolution entered the bay, and soon afterwards the town of Petropaulowski was within view. It consisted of a few

miserable log-houses, and some conical huts raised on poles, amounting in all to about thirty; yet here the voyagers were received and treated with feelings of humanity, joined to a greatness of mind and elevation of sentiment which would have done honor to any nation. On the 1st of May the Discovery also entered the harbo On the 5th of July the navigators passed through Behring's Straits. They first sailed along the Asiatic coast, and then stretched over to that of America, with a view of exploring the sea between the latitudes of sixty-eight and sixtynine degrees. But in this attempt they were disappointed; on the 7th their farther progress was stopped by a large and compact field of ice connected with the land.

At one time, in attempting to penetrate towards the north-west, the Discovery was in a very dangerous situation. She became

so entangled by several large pieces of ice, that her way was stopped, and she suffered much injury. A change of wind, however taking place in the afternoon, the ice began to separate, and the navigators, setting all their sails, forced a passage through

it.

On the 31st they repassed Behring's Straits. Captain Clerke's health now rapidly declined. On the 17th of August, he was no longer able to rise from his bed; and five days afterwards he died of a consumption, which had commenced before he left England, and of which he had lingered during the whole voyage. The command of the expedition now devolved upon Captain Gore, who removed into the Resolution, and appointed Mr. King to the command of the Discovery. The body of Captain Clerke was interred near the town of Petropaulowski, on Sunday, the 29th, with all the solemnity and honors which the voyagers could bestow.

On the 12th of October they lost sight of Kamtschatka. In the forenoon of the 29th of November, the ships passed several Chinese fishing-boats; and the sea was covered with the wrecks of boats that had been lost, as it was conjectured, in the late boisterous weather. The navigators were now in latitude 22 deg. one min. south. On the following day, they ran along the Lema Islands, and took a Chinese pilot on board; and at 9 o'clock in the morning of the 1st of December they anchored at the distance of three leagues from Macao. Captain King was sent to Canton to obtain supplies of provisions and stores.

On account of the war between England and America, and with France and Spain as her allies, of which the navigators received intelligence at Canton, they put themselves in the best posture of defence that they were able; in the Resolution they mounted sixteen guns, and in the Discovery ten. They had reason, however, to believe, from the generosity of their enemies, that these precautions were superfluous; for they were informed that instructions had been found on board all the French ships of war captured in Europe, directing their commanders, in case of falling in with the ships that sailed under the command of Captain Cook, to suffer them to proceed without molestation; and the same orders were also said to have been given by the American Congress in the vessels employed in their service. In return for these liberal concessions, Captain Gere resolved to refrain from availing himself of any opportunities of capture, and to preserve, throughout the remainder of the voyage, the strictest neutrality.

On the 12th of January, 1780, the navigators got under sail from Macao; on the 19th, they saw Pulo Lapata, and on the 20th, descried Pulo Condore, and anchored in the harbor at the south-west end of the island. The navigators remained at Pulo Condore till the 28th of January, when they unmoored, and pro

ceeded on their homeward passage; passing through the Straits of Banca, and Sunda, without any occurrence worthy of particu lar remark. On the 18th of February they left the Straits of Sunda. In the night, between the 25th and 26th, they experi enced a violent storm, during which almost every sail they had bent was split to rags; and the next day they were obliged to bend their last set of sails, and to knot and splice the rigging, their cordage being all expended.

On the 7th of April, they saw the land of Africa;_on_the_evening of the 12th, they dropped anchor in False Bay, and the next morning stood into Simon's Bay, at the Cape of Good Hope. They sailed out of the Bay on the 9th, and on the 12th of June, they passed the equator for the fourth time during the voyage. On the 12th of August they made the western coast of Ireland, and, after a fruitless attempt to put into Port Galway, they were obliged, by strong southerly winds, to steer northward; and on the 26th of August, both the ships came to anchor at Stromness in the Orkneys, whence Captain King was despatched by Captain Gore, to acquaint the Board of Admiralty of their arrival. On the 1st of October, the ships arrived safe at the Nore, after an absence of four years, two months, and twentytwo days.

SUFFERINGS OF EPHRAIM HOW.

On the 25th of August, 1676, Mr. Ephraim How, of New Haven, in New England, with his two eldest sons; one Mr. Augur; Caleb Jones, son to Mr. William Jones, one of the magistrates of New Haven; and a boy; six persons in all; set sail from New Haven for Boston, in a small ketch, of about

seventeen tons.

Having despatched his business there, he sailed for New Haven on the 10th of September, but was forced back to Boston by contrary winds. Here Mr. How was seized with a violent flux, which continued nearly a month; many being at that time sick, and some dying of the same.

Being in some degree restored to health, he again sailed from Boston, October 10. They went with a fair wind as far as Cape Cod: but on a sudden the weather became very tempestuous, so that they could not pass the Cape, but were driven off to sea, where they were in great danger, experiencing terrible storms, with outrageous winds and seas.

His eldest son fell sick and died about the 21st; soon after his other son was taken ill and died also. This was a bitter cup to the poor father, for these youths were his only assistants in