Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . aland, for a fortnightin February, 1777 : hethen discovered theHervey (Cooks) Islands,where he especiallynoticed and describedthe natives of th^ Society Islandshe planted pineappleand melon seeds, re-stored his Tahitianfriend Omai to his home(in Huaheine), and thensailed north for BehringStraits. On the way hediscovered, in February,1778, the islands which he named after the Earl of Sandwich,then
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . aland, for a fortnightin February, 1777 : hethen discovered theHervey (Cooks) Islands,where he especiallynoticed and describedthe natives of th^ Society Islandshe planted pineappleand melon seeds, re-stored his Tahitianfriend Omai to his home(in Huaheine), and thensailed north for BehringStraits. On the way hediscovered, in February,1778, the islands which he named after the Earl of Sandwich,then First Lord of the Admiralty, and, sailing north-east, struckthe coast of America at about the sauio point where FrancisDrake reached his farthest in New Albion in 157!). From this,coasting north, he reached Nootka Sound late in March, andrenamed it King Georges Sound. He left here on the 26thApril, and entered a deep inlet of the sea, as he supposed. Itproved, however, to be a river ; and after following its course200 miles from the mouth, he left it again on the 5th June,and by the 7th August had reached the western extremity ofAmerica, in (iQ\ which he named Cape Prince of A NEW ZKALAXUKi;.{Cwpt. ./. Coolc, Voyage tou-arJs the South Pole, 1777.) EXPLOEATIOX. 305 1784] Thence sailing westward, he was off the coast of Asia bynightfall, having sighted the two continents within one day. 12th August, while sailing north, both were in moment. Now, however, on passing through sight Cook found himself at the edge of the ice-Turninu back from this On theat the sameBehrings Straits fields in 71 north (August 17th).mass, as compact as awall, twelve feet high andstretching to east andwest as far as could beseen, the English retracedtheir journey through thestraits to the island ofOonalaska, south-west ofNorton Sound, wherethey met with threeRussian carriers who pos-sessed storehouses and alittle sloop of thirty tons,and knew of the past ex-plorations of Kamschatka,Behring, and ot
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