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I UKITI throe yean ; and ho arrived at Portsmouth iHlandn of Watohoo and OUkootai, in the MOM MM. Bailing to 



vol. Home other voyage* tho nortli of Tahiti, h arrived at tbo Kandwich lalandi, whero 



1 the inland* of Marion and ho WM token for a mperior being, and an each received by the 



.. , \M-11 lu that -uek-u Land, were dUoovered I native*. On the let of January, 1778, he made the discovery 



CAPE HORN, THE MOST SOUTHERLY POINT OP SOUTH AMERICA, IN LAT. 55 59' 8., LONG. 67 16' W. 



by the navigators whose name they bear. Again the inde- 

 fatigable Cook resumed hia voyages of discovery. This time he 

 intended to search for the north-west passage to India, by pass- 

 ing through Eehring Strait. He left England on the 12th of 



of this important group. Captain Cook then prepared for the 

 accomplishment of the principal object of the expedition. He 

 Bailed along the north-western coast of the New World, until he 

 reached a point of land which he called Icy Cape, in latitude 



ANOTHER VIEW OF CAPE HORN. 



July, 1776, with the ships Resolution and Discovery nnder his 

 command. He first visited the islands above mentioned, and 

 then touched at Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. Soon 

 after he discovered the central Polynesian proup Toubouai, the 

 archipelago of Hervey Islands or Monaian group, and the 



70 27'. Here a solid mass of ice, ten feet thick, extending to 

 the opposite coast of Asia, presented to him an insuperable 

 barrier. He returned to the Sandwich Islands, where, alas! 

 his fate awaited him. On the island in this' archipelago called 

 Owhyhee, he fell by the hands of a savage ; and thus, unfortu- 



