C O O K ’s V O Y A G E. 
o’clock in the afternoon, died our Firft Lieutenant Mr. Hicks, 
and in the evening we committed his body to the fea, with 
the ufual ceremonies. The difeafe of which he died, was a 
confumption, and as he was not free from it when we failed 
from England, it may truly be faid that he was dying during 
the whole voyage, though his decline was very gradual’ till 
we came to Batavia : the next day I gave Mr. Charles Clerk 
an order to aft as Lieutenant in his room, a young man who 
was extremely well qualified for that ftation. 
Our rigging and fails were now become fo bad, that fome- 
thing was giving way every day. We continued our courfe, 
however, in fafety till the 10th of June, when land, which 
proved to be the Lizard, was difcovered by Nicholas Young, 
the fame boy that firll faw New Zealand ; on the i ith we rurt 
up the channel, at fix in the morning ef the 12th we palled 
Beachy Head, and at noon we were abreaft ef Dover, and 
about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went afliord 
at Deal. 
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