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PREFACE. 



A fter having so long withdrawn myself 

 from the public eye, it is only under the aus- 

 pices of the following work, that I should 

 have ventured to appear once more in its 

 presence. 



The narratives of travellers, and, above 

 all, the description of those remote coun- 

 tries of the globe, which have immortalized 

 the name of Cook, have always had a par- 

 ticular attraction for my mind ; and led 

 me in my early youth, to weave an 

 humble chaplet for the brow of that great 

 navigator, which my venerable friend, 

 Doctor Kippis, inserted in the history of 

 his life. The narrative of Cook's glorious 



