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VOYAGE TO THE 
agriculture, to give a taste for letters, to reclaim the savage, 
and teach him to take and feel his rank as man. 
July 12.—We left Oahu and steered for Karakakoa Bay, 
which we reached on the 14th, and were there rejoined by 
Mr. Malden, who had remained on Hawaii to complete his 
survey of the coast of that Island. It was interesting to 
visit the place of Cook's unfortunate death ; and many of 
us brought away pieces of the dark lava rock on which he 
stood when he received his death-wound, and also of that on 
which the morai stood, where, it was believed, his remains 
had been burnt and his bones gathered. There can be no 
doubt now, that his death was purely accidental, and truly 
lamented by the natives, who conferred every honour on his 
body which was in their power, and regarded him as a deity 
whose spirit might one day return to them. 
The bay is semicircular, and neither a pleasant nor a 
safe anchorage, the shore being so steep that ships are 
obliged to bring up uncomfortably near the land. The 
villages of Karakahooa and Ivowrowa * appear to have suf¬ 
fered little change since Captain King described them, ex¬ 
cepting the destruction of the morais, the erection of a 
* Koavaroa, Kearake’kua: at the first Captain Cook was killed, at the 
second he had his observatory. 
