Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . me seven hundred men and only thirty women. Early in April, Cook arrived among the Marquesas Islands,discovered in 1595 by Mendana. On the 22d, he arrived atPoint Venus, in Tahiti, where he had observed the transit in1769, and of which the longitude was known: he was able,therefore, to determine the error of his .watch, and to fix anewits rate of going. The natives, and especially Otoo, the king,expressed no little joy at seeing him again. On leaving Ta-hiti, Coo
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . me seven hundred men and only thirty women. Early in April, Cook arrived among the Marquesas Islands,discovered in 1595 by Mendana. On the 22d, he arrived atPoint Venus, in Tahiti, where he had observed the transit in1769, and of which the longitude was known: he was able,therefore, to determine the error of his .watch, and to fix anewits rate of going. The natives, and especially Otoo, the king,expressed no little joy at seeing him again. On leaving Ta-hiti, Cook visited in detail the islands named Espiritu Santo byQuiros and Grandes Cyclades by Bougainville. As he deter- 440 MAN UPON THE SEA. mined their extent and position, he took the liberty of changingtheir name to that of the New Hebrides. Cook now discovered the large island of New Caledonia,whose inhabitants he mentions as possessing an excellent cha-racter. Subsequent navigators, however, ascertained them to becannibals. They were much lower in the scale of intelligencethan the Tahitians. Their canoes were of the most clumsy. NEW CALEDONIAN DOUBLE CANOE. description, and were generally propelled in pairs by was unable to obtain provisions; and, as his crew werenow suffering from famine, he returned to New Zealand, wherehe arrived on the 18th of October. He left again on the 10thof November, and anchored on the 21st of December in Christ-mas Sound, in Terra del Fuego. He doubled Cape Horn, dis-covered numerous islands of little importance, and finally headedthe vessel for the Cape of Good Hope. He anchored in TableBay on the 19th of March, 1775. He here found news of theAdventure, which had already passed the Cape on her wayhome. On the 30th of July, Cook landed at Plymouth, awran absence of three years and eighteen days. During this spaceof time he had lost but four men, and only one of these four bysickness. He was promoted to the rank of captain, was electeda mem
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