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Hawaii showed themselves unfriendly, and a quarrel having arisen 

 during a landing, they fell upon Cook and his men, and the great 

 captain was slain. The Journal of Captain Cook's second voyage 

 (the one referred to by Mr. Darwin) was published in London in 

 177T; the Journal of the last voyage, in 1781. 



Cowley, Captain. (Page 77.) An English navigator, who, as 

 did also Captain William Dampier, accompanied Captain John Cooke 

 in a voyage round the world in 1683-84. In the year first named 

 Cowley happened to be in Virginia, and was prevailed upon by Cooke 

 to go as sailing-master of his ship Revenge, on a trading voyage to 

 Hayti. Cooke, however, was really a buccaneer, and the story was 

 only a pretence. They sailed, then, August 23d, 1683, for the South 

 Seas, by way of the African coast (where they captured a new and 

 better-armed ship, to which they transferred themselves and the name 

 of their old ship), Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the 

 island of Juan Fernandez, the Lobos Islands west of Peru, Panama, 

 and the Galapagos (i. e., Turtle) Islands, which were sighted May 31st, 

 1684. A month later Cooke died, and, in September, Cowley left the 

 Revenge to sail the Nicholas, another pirate ship, with which they had 

 kept company after rounding Cape Horn. His course now lay to the 

 Asiatic coast and archipelago. At Timor, in December, 1685, Cowley 

 quitted the Nicholas and went to Batavia, where, in the following 

 March, he embarked for Holland, and reached London October 12th, 

 1686. This account of him will be found in Robert Kerr's " General 

 History and Collection of Voyages and Travels" (Edinburgh, 1814).' 



Dampier, WILLIAM. (Page 77.) An English navigator ; born 

 1652, in Somersetshire ; the year of his death is unknown, but it was 

 later than 1711. He had a most adventurous life on sea and on land 

 in both hemispheres. In July, 1682, after a season of buccaneering, 

 he arrived in Virginia, and in the following year fell in with Captain 

 John Cooke, a native of St. Kitts, in the West Indies, and joined him 

 (with less compunction than did Captain Cowley) in his piratical ex- 

 pedition. He remained by the Revenge w r hen Cowley left it, and 



