CAPTAIN COOK. 



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head man being led down to the shore by a party of marines, 

 gathered around the Englishmen with an evident intention of 

 opposing the monarch's forcible abduction. Just then news 

 was brought from another part of the island that the white 

 strangers had fired on some Hawaiians and killed a chief. 

 This produced great excitement, and 

 seeing that the detention of the king 

 could only end in bloodshed, Cook 

 liberated his prisoner and hailed his boats. 

 As the embarkation proceeded, the 

 natives began their attack with showers 

 of stones, but without doing any damage. 

 Cook let his men go on board one of 



BURIAL OK CAPTIAN COOK'S REMAINS AT SEA, AND HIS MONUMENT AT HAWAII. 



the boats, and that being filled he himself waited for the other, which was only a few 

 yards distant. He was thus left alone for a moment, and a native taking advantage of 



