100 HAWAII AND OAHU. 



valour or of usefulness, such things must assuredly have that effect. 

 The drawing of the stump of this tree, is from a sketch made by Mr. 

 Peale, who remarks that this monument will last as long as the rock 

 on which Cook stood when first wounded, as every one who visits 

 the place breaks fragments from the latter. 



CAPTAIN COOK S 3I0XUMENT. 



The following is the inscription on it : 



t 



KEAR THIS SPOT 



FELL 



CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R. N., 



THE 



RENOWNED CIRCCMNAVIGATOR, 



WHO 



DISCOVERED THESE ISLANDS, 



A. D. 1778. 



HIS majesty's ship 



lUOGEXE, 



OCTOBER 17th, 1837. 



THIS SHEET OF COPPER AND CAP PUT OX BY SPARROWHAWK, 



SEPTEMBER 13t!I, 1330, 



IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THIS 3IONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF COOK. 



I could have \vished that the first inscription, relating solely to 

 Cook, was the only one ; the other, it seems to me, was not worthy 

 of being associated with anv thinj? connected with so (jreat a name : 

 and good taste and proper feeling I think would have shrunk from 

 inscribing it as well as the following on another part, " Give this a 

 coat of tar." 



The southwest side of Hawaii is termed the district of Kona, and 



