LIFE OF CAPTAIN COOK. VII 



cited hereby induced government to send Captain 

 Cook on another voyage of discovery to the southern 

 hemisphere, and he accordingly sailed with two ships, 

 the Resolution, commanded by himself, and the Ad- 

 venture, by Captain Furneaux, April 9. 177^» After 

 proceeding as far as 7i° 10' of south latitude, amidst 

 mountains of ice, and discovering some new islands, 

 our voyagers returned to England, July 30. 177^* 

 The Resolution in this enterprize lost only one man 

 out of her whole complement, for which Captain 

 Cook was elected a member of the Royal Society, 

 and afterwards the gold medal was voted to him by 

 the same learned body. He was also appointed a 

 post-captain, and promoted to a valuable situation in 

 Greenwich hospital. As the narrative of the former 

 voyage had not given satisfaction, the history of the 

 second was drawn almost wholly from the captain's 

 journals, and digested by Dr. Douglas, late bishop of 

 Salisbury. But the labours of Cook were not to 

 end here. In July 177^ lie sailed again, to decide 

 the long agitated question of a northern passage to 

 the Pacific Ocean. In this voyage he had two ships, 

 the Resolution and the Discovery; but after sailing 

 as high as 74" 44' N. the object was considered im- 

 practicable; and on Nov. 26. 1778) the ships arrived 

 at the Sandwich islands. Here at first they were 

 well received, but at lengtli the people of Owhyhee 

 stole one of the boats, to recover which Captain 

 Cook went on shore, with the intention of getting 



