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final! party to the water-fide, where the boats lay within 
a few yards of the (bore : the Indians readily made a lane 
for them to pafis, and did not offer to interrupt’them. 
The difhmoe they had to go might be fifty or fixty yards; 
captain Cook followed, having hold of Kariopoo’s hand, 
who accompanied- him very willingly ; he was attended 
bv his wife, two fons, and feveral chiefs. The trouble- 
fome old pried followed, making the fame favage noife. 
Keow'a, the younger fon, went dire61 ly-into the pinnace, 
exp'e filing his father to follow; but juft as he arrived at 
the water-fide, his wife threw her arms about his neck, 
and, with the affiftance of two chiefs, forced him to fit 
down by the fide of a double canoe. Captain Cook ex- 
populated with them, but to no purpofe ; they would not 
fuffer the king to proceed, telling him he would be put 
to death if he went on-board the (hip. Kariopoo, whofe 
condufit feemed entirely refigned to the will of others, 
hung down his head, and appeared much diftreffed. 
“°While the king was in this fituation, a chief,'well 
known to us, of the name of Coho, was obferved near, 
with an iron dagger, partly concealed under his cloak, 
feemingly with an intention of ftabbing captain Cook, or 
the lieutenant of marines. The latter propof'ed to fire 
at him, but captain Cook would not permit it. Coho 
clofing upon him, obliged the officer to ftrike him with 
hts piece, which made him retire. Another Indian laid 
hold of the ferjeant’s mufket, and endeavoured to wrench 
it from him, but was prevented by the lieutenant’s mak¬ 
ing a blow at him. Captain Cook, feeing the tumult 
increafe, and the Indians growing more daring and refo- 
lute, obferved, that if he were to take the king off by 
force, he could not do it without facrificing the lives-of 
many of his people. He then paufed a little, and was 
on the point of giving his orders to reimbark, when a 
man threw a ftone at him, which he returned with a dif- 
charae of frnall fliot, with which one barrel of his dou¬ 
ble piece was loaded. The man, having a thick mat 
before him, received little or no hurt: he brandijhed his 
fpear, and threatened to dart it at captain Cook, who 
being ftill unwilling to take away his life, inftead of 
firing with ball, knocked him down with his mufket. 
He expoftulated tlrongly with the moil forward of the 
crowd, upon their turbulent behaviour. He had given 
up all thoughts of getting the king on-board, as it ap¬ 
peared imprafiticable ; and his care was then only to afit 
on the defenfive, and to fecure a fafe embarkation for 
his fmall party, which was clofely preffed.by a body of 
feveral thoufand people. Keowa, the king’s fon, who 
was in the pinnace, being alarmed on hearing the firft 
firing, was, at his own entreaty, put on-fhore again: for 
everT at that time Mr. Roberts, who commanded her, 
did not apprehend that captain Cook’s perfon was in any 
danger, othervvife he would have detained the prince, 
which no doubt would have been a great check on the 
Indians. One man was obferved, behind a double canoe, 
in the afition of darting his fpear at captain Cook ; who 
was forced to fire at him in his own defence, but hap- 
1 pened to kill another clofe to him, equally forward in 
the tumult: the ferjeant, obferving that he had miffed 
the man he aimed at, received orders to fire at him, which 
he did, and killed him. By this time the'impetuofity of 
the Indians was fomewhal repreifed; they fell back in 
a body, and feemed daggered: but being pufhed on by 
thofe behind, they returned to the charge, and poured 
a volley of ftones among the marines, who, without 
waiting for orders, returned it with a general difcharge 
of mufketry, which was inftantly followed by a fire from 
the boats. At this captain Cook was heard to exprefs 
his aftoniffiment; he waved his hand to the boats, called 
to them to ceafe firing, and to come nearer in to receive 
the marines. Mr. Roberts immediately brought the pin¬ 
nace as clofe to the fhore as he could without ground¬ 
ing, notwithftanding the (bowers of (tones that fell among 
the people; hut Mr. John Wiliiamfon, the lieutenant, 
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who commanded in the launch, inftead of pulling in. to 
the affiftance of captain Cook, withdrew his boat further 
off, at the moment that every thing feems to have de- 
pended upon the timely exertions of thofe in the boats. 
By his own account, lie miftook the (ignal: but be that 
as it may, this circumftance appears to me to have de¬ 
cided the fatal turn of the affair, and to have removed 
every chance* which remained with captain Cook, of 
efcaping with his life. The bufmefs of faving the ma¬ 
rines out of the water, in confequence of that, fell al¬ 
together upon the pinnace; which thereby became fo 
much crowded, that the crew were in a great meafure 
prevented from ufing their fire-arms, or giving what aft 
fiftance they otherwife might have done to captain Cook ; 
fo that he feems, at the mod critical point of time, to 
have wanted the afiiftance of both boats, owing to the 
removal of the launch. For notwithftanding that they 
kept up a fire on the crowd, from the fituation to which 
they removed in that boat, the fatal confulion which 
enfued on her being withdrawn, to fay the lead of it, 
mud have prevented the full effe6I, that the prompt co- 
operation of the two boats, according to captain Cook’s 
orders, mud have had towards the prefervation of him- 
felf and his people. At that time it was to the boats 
alone that captain Cook had to look for his fafety; for, 
when the marines had fired, the Indians ruftied among 
them, and forced them into the water, where four of 
them were killed ; their lieutenant was wounded, but 
fortunately efcaped, and was taken up by the pinnace. 
Captain Cook was then the only one remaining on the 
rock: he was obferved making for the pinnace, holding 
his left hand againft the hack of his head, to guard it 
from the ftones, and carrying his mufket under the other 
arm. An Indian was feen following him, but with cau¬ 
tion and timidity, for he (topped once or twice, as if un¬ 
determined to proceed. At laft he advanced upon him 
unawares, and with a large club, or common (take, gave 
him a blow on the back of the head, and then precipi¬ 
tately retreated. The (troke feemed to have (tunned 
captain Cook: he ftaggered a few paces, then fell on his 
hand and one knee, and dropped his mufket. As he was 
rifing, and before he could recover his feet, another In¬ 
dian (tabbed him in the back of ’he neck with an iron 
dagger, tie then fell in the water about knee deep, 
where others crowded upon him, and endeavoured to 
keep him under; but draggling very ftrongly with them, 
he got his head up, and catting his look towards the pin¬ 
nace, feemed to folicit affiftance. J hough the boat was 
not above five or fix yards diftant from him, yet from 
the crowded and confufed ftate of the crew, it feems it 
was not in their power to fave him. The Indians got 
him under again, but in deeper water : lie was, however, 
able to get his head up once more; and being almoft 
(pent in the druggie, he naturally turned to the rock, 
and was endeavouring to fupport himfelf by it, when a 
favage gave him a blow with a club, and he was feen 
alive no more. They hauled him up lifelefs on the 
rocks, where they feemed to take a favage pleafure in 
tiling every barbarity to his dead body;, fnatching the 
daggers out of each other’s hands, to have the horrid 
fatisfafition of piercing the fallen vifitim of their barba¬ 
rous rage.” 
Captain Cook was a married man, and left feveral 
children. On each of thefe his majefty fettled a penfion 
of twenty-five pounds per annum, and two hundred 
pounds per annum on his widow. It is remarkable, if 
true, as reported, that captain Cook was-godfather to 
his wife ; and, at the very time (Ire was chriftsned, de¬ 
clared that he had determined on the union which after¬ 
wards took place between them. 
To what we have already dated of this circumnavi¬ 
gator, we (hall add (ome extrafits from the account given 
of his life and public fervices by captain King: “He 
was engaged in molt of the bufy and afitive (cones in 
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