CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



EXPEDITION DESPATCHED AT THE INSTANCE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY — LIEUTENANT 



JAMES COOK INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE A NIGHT ON SHORE IN TERRA 



DEL FUEGO ARRIVAL AT TAHITI THE NATIVES PICK THEIR POCKETS THE 



OBSERVATORY A NATIVE CHEWS A QUID OF TOBACCO THE TRANSIT OF VENUS 



TWO OF THE MARINES TAKE UNTO THEMSELVES WIVES — NEW ZEALAND 



ADVENTURES THERE REMARKABLE WAR-CANOE CANNIBALISM DEMONSTRATED 



THEORY OF A SOUTHERN CONTINENT SUBVERTED NEW HOLLAND BOTANY 



BAY THE ENDEAVOR ON THE ROCKS EXPEDIENT TO STOP THE LEAK A CON- 

 FLAGRATION PASSAGE THROUGH A REEF ARRIVAL AT BATAVIA— MORTALITY 



ON THE VOYAGE HOME COOK PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF COMMANDER. 



In the year 1768, the Royal Society of England induced the 



Government to equip and despatch a vessel to the South Seas. 



The reader may perhaps imagine — and, from what has preceded 



in this volume, he would be amply justified in so doing — that its 



purpose was plunder, and its object either the capture of the 



Manilla galleon or the sack and pillage of the luckless town of 



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