Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . must now become more miserable frombeing obliged to abandon all thoughts of continuing career and destiny of Omai were perhaps more remarkablethan those of any other savage: he was cherished by Cook,painted by Reynolds, and apostrophized by Cowper. During the stay of the vessels at the Society Islands, Cook in-duced the crews to give up their grog and use the milk of cocoa-nuts instead. He submitted it to them whether it would not beinjudicious, by drink
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . must now become more miserable frombeing obliged to abandon all thoughts of continuing career and destiny of Omai were perhaps more remarkablethan those of any other savage: he was cherished by Cook,painted by Reynolds, and apostrophized by Cowper. During the stay of the vessels at the Society Islands, Cook in-duced the crews to give up their grog and use the milk of cocoa-nuts instead. He submitted it to them whether it would not beinjudicious, by drinking their spirits now, to run the risk ofhaving none left in a cold climater where cordials would be mostneeded, and whether they would not be content to dispensewith their grog now, when they had so excellent a liquor as thatof cocoanuts to substitute in its place. The proposal wasunanimously agreed to, and the grog was stopped except onSaturday nights. Early in February, 1778, Cook made a most important dis-covery,—that of the archipelago now known as the SandwichIslands, so named by Cook in honor of the Earl of Sandwich,. MAN UPON THE SEA. 445 First Lord of the Admiralty. He visited five of these islands,one of which was Oahu. He found a remarkable similarity ofmanners and coincidence of language with those of the SocietyIslands, and in his journal asks the following question:— Howshall we account for this nation having spread itself in so manydetached islands, so widely separated from each other, in everyquarter of the Pacific Ocean? We find it from New Zealandin the south to the Sandwich Islands in the north! And, inanother direction, from Easter Island to the New Hebrides !That is, over an extent of three thousand six hundred milesnorth and south, and five thousand miles east and west! From the Sandwich Islands Cook sailed to the northeast,and on the 7th of March struck the coast of America, upon theshores of the tract named New Albion by Sir Francis skies b
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