A 3ANDWICH ISLAND KING PROCEEDING TO VISIT COOK. 



CHAPTER XLV. 



cook's thied voyage— the northwest PASSAGE— OMAI— HIS EXCEPTION AT 

 HOME — THE CEEW FOEEGO THEIR GEOG — DISCOVERY OF THE SANDWICH ISLAND! 



NOOTKA SOUND— THE NATIVES— CAPE PRINCE OF WALES— TWO CONTINENTS 



IN SIGHT — ICY CAPE EETUEN TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS COOK IS DEIFIED 



INTERVIEW WITH TEEEOBOO — SUBSEQUENT DIFFICULTIES — A SKIRMISH 



PITCHED BATTLE AND DEATH OF COOK— RECOVERY OF A TOETION OF HIS 

 REMAINS FUNERAL CEREMONIES LIFE AND SEEVICES OF COOK. 



Cook might justly have retired at this period to private lire, 

 to enjoy his well-earned reputation. But the grand question 

 of the Northwest Passage, now agitated by the press and the 

 public, induced him once more to tempt the perils of foreign 

 adventure. As every effort to force a passage through Baffin's 

 or Hudson's Bay had signally failed, it was determined to 

 make the experiment through Behring's Straits. On the 9th 

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