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NAMES OF PERSONS MENTIONED. 



Cook, JAMES. (Pp. 94, 174.) An English navigator ; born October 

 27th, 1728, in Yorkshire; killed by the Sandwich Islanders February 

 14th, 1779. As master of the sloop Mercury he assisted in the tak- 

 ing of Quebec by Wolfe, in 1759. His first voyage to the southern 

 hemisphere was in the employ of the Government, beginning in 1768. 

 He visited Tahiti and New Zealand, and explored the east coast of 

 Australia, as Dampier had done the west. He returned to England 



KARAKAKOOA BAY, THE SCENE OF CAPTAIN COOK'S DEATH. 



in 1771, and was sent out the following year, in command of the 

 Resolution, in search of the Antarctic continent. On this voyage 

 he discovered New Caledonia, and returned to England in 1775. 

 Captain Cook's third voyage was undertaken in 1776, for the sake 

 of a reward offered by Parliament to the discoverer of a northern 

 passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. He discovered the Sand- 

 wich Islands in January, 1778, afterward explored Bearing Strait, and 

 on sailing homeward stopped again at the islands. The natives of 



