50 J- H. MAIDEN. 



and then precipitately retreated. The stroke seem to have stunned 

 Captain Cook; he staggered a few paces, then fell on his hand and one 

 knee and dropped his musket. As he was rising, and before he could 

 recover his feet, another Indian stabbed him in the back of the neck with 

 an iron dagger. He then fell into a bight of water about knee deep, where 

 others crowded upon him, and endeavoured to keep him under; but 

 struggling very strongly with them, he got his head up, and casting his 

 look toward the pinnace, seemed to solicit assistance. Though the boat 

 was not above five or six yards distant from him, yet from the crowded 

 and confused state of the crew, it seems it was not in their power to save 

 him. The Indians got him under again, but in deeper water , he was 

 however, able to get his head up once more, and being almost spent in 

 the struggle, he naturally turned to the rock, and was endeavouring to 

 support himself by it, when a savage gave him a blow with a club, and 

 he was seen alive no more. They hauled him up lifeless on the rocks, 

 where they seemed to take a savage pleasure in using every barbarity to 

 his dead body, snatching the daggers out of each others hands, to have 

 the horrid satisfaction of piercing the fallen victim of their barbarous 

 rage." 



2. Inscriptions on a Mural Tablet and Gravestone commemor- 

 ating some of Captain Cook's family. 



The Church of St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, is to some 

 extent identified with the family by the great circumnavigator. 

 North of the altar is a handsome mural tablet with the following 

 inscription : — 



" In memory of Captain James Cook of the Royal Navy, one 

 of the most celebrated navigators that this or former ages can 

 boast of, who was killed by the natives of Owhyhee in the Pacific 

 Ocean, on the 14th day of February, 1779, in the 51st year of 

 his age. 



" Of Mr Nathaniel Cook who was lost with the Thunderer 

 Man-of-War, Captain Boyle Walsingham, in a most dreadful 

 hurricane, in October 1780, aged 16 years. 



"Of Mr. Hugh Cook of Christ's College, Cambridge, who died 

 Dn the 21st December, 1793, aged 17 years. 



"Of James Cook Esquire, Commander in the Royal Navy, who 

 lost his life on the 25th of January, 1794, 1 in going from Pool to 

 1 The "Colonial and Indian" copy says 1794.— RE. 



