Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . of a shoe! But the ships company,which had been so wonderfully preserved from the perils of thesea, were destined to undergo the rude attacks of disease uponland. Markhouse, the surgeon, Tupia and Tayeto, the Tahitians,and four sailors, were rapidly carried off by fever. On the 27thof December, the ship weighed anchor, the sick-list includingforty names. Before doubling the Cape of Good Hope, she lostSporing, one of the assistant naturalists, Parkinson, the artis
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . of a shoe! But the ships company,which had been so wonderfully preserved from the perils of thesea, were destined to undergo the rude attacks of disease uponland. Markhouse, the surgeon, Tupia and Tayeto, the Tahitians,and four sailors, were rapidly carried off by fever. On the 27thof December, the ship weighed anchor, the sick-list includingforty names. Before doubling the Cape of Good Hope, she lostSporing, one of the assistant naturalists, Parkinson, the artist,Green, the astronomer, Molineux, the master, besides the secondlieutenant, four carpenters, and ten sailors. Cook was forcedto wait a month at the Cape; and on the 12th of July, 1771,he cast anchor in the Downs, after a cruise of three eventfulyears. His crew was decimated and his ship no longer sea-worthy. The skill and enterprise displayed by Cook, and theimportant results attained by the voyage, induced the Govern-ment to raise him to the rank of commander. We shall followhim upon his second voyage, in the next chapter. *. ^m COOKS SHIP BESET BY WATER-SPOUTS CHAPTER XLIY. COOKS SECOND VOYAGE—A STORM—SEPARATION OP THE SHIPS—AURORA AUS- TRALIS—NEW ZEALAND SIX WATER-SPOUTS AT ONCE TAHITI AGAIN PETTY THEFTS OF THE NATIVES—COOK VISITS THE TAHITIAN THEATRE—OMAI— ARRIVAL AT THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS THE FLEET WITNESS A FEAST OF HUMAN FLESH—THE NEW HEBRIDES NEW CALEDONIA—RETURN HOME—HONORS BE-STOWED UPON COOK. The English Government now determined to despatch an expe-dition in search of the supposed Southern or Austral Frenchman, by the name of Benoit, had seen in 1709, to thesouth of the Cape of Good Hope, in latitude 54° and in longi-tude 11° East, what he believed to be land, naming it Cape Cir-cumcision. Cook was placed in command of the Resolution andAdventure, and instructed to endeavor to find this cape and 432 MAN UPON THE SEA. 433 satisfy hims
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