ILLUSTRATIONS 



Webber's Portrait of Captain James 



Cook .... Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



The Record of the Baptism of 

 James Cook i6 



The Little Stone Cottage Where 

 James Cook Spent His Boyhood 

 Days 48 



An Attack on a Herd of Sea Horses i 04 



The Harbor of Kerguelen Island 



ON Christmas Day, 1776 . .152 



Cook and His Men Were Enter- 

 tained with Dances, Music and 

 Spear Fights 184 



The Resolution and the Discovery 

 Were Greeted by Hundreds of 

 Kindly Natives . . .216 



At the Sandwich Islands Canoes 

 Swarmed Out to Meet Cook's 

 Ships 232 



