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which had been so wonderfully preserved from the perils of the 

 sea, were destined to undergo the rude attacks of disease upon 

 land. Markhouse, the surgeon, Tupia and Tayeto, the Tahitians, 

 and four sailors, were rapidly carried off by fever. On the 27th 

 of December, the ship weighed anchor, the sick-list including 

 forty names. Before doubling the Cape of Good Hope, she lost 

 Sporing, one of the assistant naturalists, Parkinson, the artist^ 

 Green, the astronomer, Molineux, the master, besides the second 

 lieutenant, four carpenters, and ten sailors. Cook was forced 

 to wait a month at the Cape ; and on the 12th of July, 1771, 

 he cast anchor in the Downs, after a cruise of three eventful 

 years. His crew was decimated and his ship no longer sea- 

 worthy. The skill and enterprise displayed by Cook, and the 

 important results attained by the voyage, induced the Govern- 

 ment to raise him to the rank of commander. 



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PIGEON OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



